By Richard Cunningham McCormick
(Edited by Parker Anderson)
(Richard McCormick was the second Territorial Governor of Arizona who lived in the Governor’s Mansion in Prescott with his wife Margaret. Previously, he had been a prominent politician on the East Coast and, in 1866, wrote a series of articles for the New York Evening Post. One detailed his own personal memories of President Abraham Lincoln, who had been assassinated the year before. On March 14, 1866, the Arizona Miner printed a few excerpts from this lengthy article. These are reprinted below; probably the first widely circulated reprinting of Governor McCormick’s comments since 1866. – ed)
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