This engraving represents John Palmer Usher, 1816-1889, a lawyer from Indiana and a member of President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Usher serves only two years as the seventh U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1863-1865, before returning to private life. In 1865, he becomes the chief counsel for the Kansas Pacific Railroad a position he holds until his retirement in 1880. Usher also resumes his political career when he moves to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1872, and is elected to serve one term as the town's mayor, 1879-1881). On April 13, 1889 at the age of seventy-three, he passes away at the University Hospital in Philadelphia after a lengthy illness. Burial is at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.