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Pennsylvania:
A great crowd met the train in Harrisburg at 8:00pm.
"It was affecting to see old men who had been carried in their chairs... and women with infants in their arms, assembled to look at the passing cortege."
-- J.C. Power
At 4:30pm on Saturday, April 22 the train arrived in Philadelphia. The coffin was taken to Independence Hall. The crowd of mourners was so great on the morning of Sunday, April 23 that the line waiting to enter stretched three miles.
"Never before in the history of our city was such a dense mass of humanity huddled together... Half a million of sorrow-stricken people were upon the streets to honor all that was left of a man whom they respected, revered and loved."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer |