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Antique Green Velvet Rocking Chair/Great Lines! Exquisite Wood! - $75 (Asheville)
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Called a 'Lincoln Rocker', but actually an 'American Empire rocking chair' This style continued into the Victorian era .
They were very comfortable and produced during the Industrial Revolution.
President Lincoln was unusually tall for his time so he always preferred high back chairs .
They were not known as Lincoln Rockers until his assassination at the Ford theater in Washington DC . He was seated in one in his private viewing box in the theater . This was 1865.
It was after this horrific event the chairs become called a Lincoln Rocker .
There was a drawing that became the print for the News article of him seated in the type of chair as he was shot by John Wilks Boothe with a pistol .
This unforgettable image is what the American people remembered.