Henry Rathbone
Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were sitting with Lincoln and Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln, when the president was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; when Rathbone attempted to apprehend Booth, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him. Rathbone may have played a part in Booth's leg injury. Although he recovered, Rathbone's mental state deteriorated afterwards, and in 1883, he murdered his wife, Clara, in a fit of madness, later being declared insane by doctors and living the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum.
Henry Rathbone | |
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1865 Mathew Brady photograph of Rathbone | |
| Birth name | Henry Reed Rathbone |
| Born | July 1, 1837 Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1911 (aged 74) Hildesheim, Prussia, Germany |
| Buried | Stadtfriedhof Engesohde (disinterred in 1952) |
| Allegiance | United States (Union) |
| Service/ | U.S. Army (Union Army) |
| Years of service | 1861–1870 |
| Rank | Brevet colonel |
| Unit | 12th U.S. Infantry |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | Henry Riggs Rathbone Gerald Lawrence Rathbone Clara Pauline Rathbone |
| Relations | Ira Harris (stepfather and father-in-law) |
| Other work | Attorney |
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