1. Charles Augustus Leale was a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War and the first doctor to arrive at the presidential box at Ford's Theatre on April 14,1865, after John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln in the head.
Charles Leale's prompt treatment allowed Lincoln to live until the next morning.
One of the last surviving witnesses to Lincoln's death, Charles Leale died in 1932 at the age of 90.
Dr Leale was born in New York City March 26,1842, the son of Captain William P and Anna Maria Burr Leale.
Charles Leale was a grandson of Captain Richard Burr, who, in 1746 sent a cargo of corn to famine-stricken Ireland.
Charles Leale began his medical studies at 18, the private pupil of Dr Austin Flint, Sr.
Charles Leale studied at various clinics and served a full term as medical cadet in the United States Army.
Charles Leale arrived late and was unable to get a seat with an unhindered view of Lincoln; instead he sat near the front about forty feet away.
Charles Leale then saw Lincoln slumped in his armchair supported by Mary Todd Lincoln; Lincoln was unresponsive, barely breathing with no detectable pulse.
Charles Leale was unable to locate the bullet, which was deep in Lincoln's head, but after he dislodged a blood clot Lincoln's breathing improved; he found that regular removal of clots maintained Lincoln's breathing.
In that year Charles Leale spoke on "Lincoln's Last Hour" to the New York commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Charles Leale's 1865 written report to the Surgeon General of the United States was thought lost until 2008, when a 22-page photocopy was found in the Georgetown University Library and published.
Until his retirement in 1928, Dr Charles Leale maintained a continuous interest in philanthropic, medical, and scientific projects.
Charles Leale was one of the last surviving attendees of Lincoln's assassination upon his death in 1932 at the age of 90.
Charles Leale was survived by five children, a sixth child, daughter Annie Leale, having died in 1915.
Charles Leale was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, where funeral services were held on June 15,1932.
The cuff of the shirt that Charles Leale wore the night of the assassination, stained with Lincoln's blood, was later donated by his granddaughter to the National Museum of American History.