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Tobias Lear (September 19, 1762 – October 11, 1816) was the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799. Lear's journal details Washington's final moments and his last words: 'Tis well.
Washington's tomb at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., originally designed to entomb the body of George Washington. Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Washington's Tomb displaying Lincoln Catafalque, 2007 Washington's Tomb is an empty burial chamber two stories directly below the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC . It was included in the original design of the building by William Thornton and intended to entomb the body of George Washington , the first President ...
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [a ... he instructed his private secretary Tobias Lear to wait three days before his burial. [264] According to Lear, Washington ...
John T. Towers - 15th Mayor of the City of Washington; James G. Berret (1815–1901), 18th Mayor of the City of Washington. Was forced to resign at the outbreak of the Civil War; Sayles Jenks Bowen (1813-1896) 20th Mayor of the City of Washington. Marion Barry (1936–2014), served four terms as mayor of Washington, DC.
George Washington granted a life interest in the northern section of River Farm, marked on his map as "Wellington Farm", to Tobias Lear, who was his private secretary and tutor to the Washington grandchildren. Lear married Mrs. Martha Washington's niece, Fannie Bassett, and was considered a relative.
Construction on the Capitol itself began in 1793, when the first American President, George Washington, laid down the cornerstone to the north wing of the building. [1] Upon the death of Washington in 1799, the designers of the Capitol went to Martha Washington and requested permission to build a tomb for her husband in the Capitol. She ...
In 1830, an attempt was made to steal the skull from the remains of American president George Washington, which resided in a tomb at Mount Vernon. Instead, the thief mistakenly removed the skull from the remains of one of Judge Bushrod Washington's in-laws. The desecration of the burial site prompted a new, more secure, burial vault to be ...