Anti-Lincoln
Mayor Gunther had to preside over NYC’s official
mourning for slain President but vetoed
reprinting of the funeral ceremony program.
Daniel F. Tiemann
Daniel F. Tiemann
2 men who headed the
municipal agency that managed the jails and prisons as well as the charitable
institutions became Civil War era NYC Mayors: Daniel F. Tieman (1858 – 60),
who was anti-slavery & helped found Cooper Union where Lincoln spoke
against it. C. Godfrey Gunther (1854 – 65), anti-abolition,anti-Lincoln & anti-Emancipation but
had to lead NYC mourning for slain Abe.
Mayor Gunther image is
based on a Dec. 19, 1863, Harper’s Weekly sketch found at various web sites,
including
The Lincoln NYC funeral
images are from Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in the City of New
York. See
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/gunther/gunther06.html