Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN.

SoottUU-American Veteran* Honor the Great Liberator. The monument of Abraham Lincoln recently erected in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Scottish-American soldiers evidences the truth of the saying that great men belong to no single country. The making of the statue came about in a curious way. A Scotchman named McEwen,who had fought in the American war, died in 1891,

and was buried In a pauper’s grave in one of the Edinburgh cemeteries. On the following Sunday, when the widow went with her “bairns” to place flowers upon the grave, she found that it had already been desecrated by having another body rplaced in it. The story suggested

to Consul Wallace Bruce the idea of securing a burial place in Edinburgh for Scottish - American veterans. Americans in Scotland were at once interested in the project, and a site was soon selected and marked by the Lincoln monument, which represents the martyred President freeing the slaves. The monument is fifteen feet in height and the bronze figure is of life size. George E. Blssel was the sculptor, and the entire cost was about SO,OOO.

LINCOLN MONUMENT AT EDINBURGH.