The first contribution of five dollars for the statue in Lincoln Park,
Washington, D. C., was made by a colored woman named Charlotte Scott,
of Marietta, Ohio, the morning after the assassination of President
Lincoln, and the entire cost of said monument, amounting to $17,000,
was paid by subscriptions of colored people. It was unveiled April 14,
1876.
James Russell Lowell, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22,
1819. He received his degree in 1838, at Harvard, and his first
production was a class poem which was delivered on that date. He was
successor of Professor Longfellow in the chair of Modern Languages at
Harvard College. In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes to the
Spanish Mission, from which he was transferred in 1880 to the Court of
St. James. A long list of poetical works have been published to his
credit. He died August 12, 1891.