Henry Rathbone
Henry Reed Rathbone
American
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| 1837/07/01 | Pauline Penney Rathbone wife of Jared L Rathbone, gives birth to son, Henry Reed Rathbone in Albany, New York. | ||||||
| 1862/09/17 | Captain Henry Rathbone commands a company of Union soldiers at the Battle of Antietam | Union commander | Antietam National Battlefield | Sharpsburg, MD | Battle of Antietam | ||
| 1865/04/14 | Major Rathbone shouts "Stop that man!" and grabs John W Booth. Booth stabs Rathbone with a dagger, slicing to the bone from shoulder to elbow. Rathbone grabs Booth's coat as the assassin leaps. | Defender | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/14 | Major Henry Rathbone shouts "God in heven, save him!". Falling unconscious from loss of blood, Rathbone is carried to Senator Ira Harris' house where an Army doctor will suture his wounds and Clara will serve as nurse. | Defender | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| 1867/07/11 | Clara Harris marries Henry Rathbone | Groom | Marriage of Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone | ||||
| 1870/00/00 | Henry Rathbone acquires a townhouse at No 8 Jackson Place. | Home | Rathbone House | Washington, DC | |||
| 1882/00/00 | Rathbone is appointed US consul to Germany | ||||||
| 1883/12/24 | A paranoid Henry Rathbone shoots his wife and stabs her to death as she defends her children in their flat in Hanover, Germany. Henry then shoots and stabs himself repeatedly. | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |||||
| 1911/08/14 | Henry Reed Rathbone dies at Provincial Insane Asylum in Hildesheim, Germany. Major Rathbone was buried next to his wife, Clara, at Engesohde City Cemetery (Stadtfriedhof Engesohde) in Hanover, Germany. | ||||||
| 1952/00/00 | The graves of Henry Reed Rathbone and Clara Harris Rathbone at Stadtfriedhof Engesohde in Hanover are declared abandoned. Their remains are dug up and disposed of. | In Memoriam | Lower Saxony | Germany |
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