April 25 1865, 10 days after Lincoln died the morning of April 15 his body was being taken back to Springfield. Crowds of people watched the procession go by as it made it's way through Manhattan.
At just six years old, Theodore lived with his family in a house at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. When Lincoln's funeral procession passed through New York City on April 25, 1865, it moved right past the Roosevelt home. From the second-story window, young Teddy and his brother Elliott watched as Lincoln’s flag-draped coffin rolled solemnly down Broadway.
A photograph taken of the procession that day shows the Roosevelt house in the background—and if you look closely, you can see two small faces peering out of the window. Historians believe one of them is Theodore Roosevelt.
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