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Lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair sells for more than $81,000
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). BOSTON - A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair along with a blood-stained telegram about his 1865 assassination have been sold at auction for more than $81,000.The items were sold during an auction that ended Saturday, according to RR Auction of Boston.No information about the buyer was disclosed.The roughly 2-inch (5 centimeter) long lock of hair was removed during Lincoln’s postmortem examination after he was fatally shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth.It was presented to Dr.