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}}'''Henry Reed Rathbone''' (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and diplomat who was present at the [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]. Rathbone was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when [[John Wilkes Booth]] entered the president's box at Ford's Theatre and fatally shot Lincoln in the head. When Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing the scene, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him.

}}'''Henry Reed Rathbone''' (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and diplomat who was present at the [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]. Rathbone was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when [[John Wilkes Booth]] entered the president's box at Ford's Theatre and fatally shot Lincoln in the head. When Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing the scene, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him. Wracked with guilt over his perceived inability to stop President Lincoln from being killed, he spent years obsessing over his failure to the point where he drove himself mad. This culminated in him attempting to murder his children, then murdering his wife before attempting to commit suicide on December 23, 1883, while the family was living in Hanover, Germany. He would be committed to an insane asylum, where he spent the rest of his life before passing away in 1911.

==Biography==

Henry Rathbone was born in Albany, New York, in 1837. Rathbone joined the Union Army in 1861 and during the [[American Civil War]] reached the rank of major. After his father's death, his mother married the New York senator, Ira Harris. In 1865 he became engaged to his step-sister, Clara Harris.

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-}}'''Henry Reed Rathbone''' (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and diplomat who was present at the [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]. Rathbone was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when [[John Wilkes Booth]] entered the president's box at Ford's Theatre and fatally shot Lincoln in the head. When Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing the scene, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him.
+}}'''Henry Reed Rathbone''' (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and diplomat who was present at the [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]. Rathbone was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when [[John Wilkes Booth]] entered the president's box at Ford's Theatre and fatally shot Lincoln in the head. When Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing the scene, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him. Wracked with guilt over his perceived inability to stop President Lincoln from being killed, he spent years obsessing over his failure to the point where he drove himself mad. This culminated in him attempting to murder his children, then murdering his wife before attempting to commit suicide on December 23, 1883, while the family was living in Hanover, Germany. He would be committed to an insane asylum, where he spent the rest of his life before passing away in 1911.
 ==Biography==
 Henry Rathbone was born in Albany, New York, in 1837. Rathbone joined the Union Army in 1861 and during the [[American Civil War]] reached the rank of major. After his father's death, his mother married the New York senator, Ira Harris. In 1865 he became engaged to his step-sister, Clara Harris.