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William R. Rathvon
William Roedel Rathvon, CSB, (December 31, 1854 – March 2, 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon or William V. Rathbone, is the only known eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, of the over 10,000 witnesses, to have left an audio recording describing that experience. He made the recording in 1938, a year before his death. A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a successful businessman, he became a practitioner of Christian Science healing, served as a public lecturer, Church treasurer and director of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. He was treasurer from 1911 until he was elected to the Church's Board of Directors, on which he served from 1918 until his death in 1939. From 1908 to 1910 he was correspondence secretary for Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.longyear.org/store/product/72-i_heard_lincoln_that_day-audio_cd )〕 He also authored "The Devil's Auction"〔(Description of booklet ) ''The Devil's Auction'', Longyear Museum. Retrieved January 13, 2011〕 often republished without attribution as "The Devil's Garage Sale".
==Early years==
Rathvon was born in 1854 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,〔''We Knew Mary Baker Eddy''. Vol. II, expanded, pp. 510-511. Christian Science Publishing Society (2013)〕 where he attended grammar school and college. His mother had met his father while attending the Lutheran College in Gettysburg and her entire family, the Forneys, resided in and around Gettysburg.
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