![]() ![]() īy age 16, Booth was interested in the theater and in politics, and he became a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections. His sister recalled that he wrote down the palm-reader's prediction, showed it to his family and others, and often discussed its portents in moments of melancholy. While attending the Milton Boarding School, Booth met a Romani fortune-teller who read his palm and pronounced a grim destiny, telling him that he would have a grand but short life, doomed to die young and "meeting a bad end". Booth left school at 14 after his father's death. Timothy's wore military uniforms and were subject to a regimen of daily formation drills and strict discipline. ![]() At the Milton school, students recited classical works by such authors as Cicero, Herodotus, and Tacitus. Timothy's Hall, an Episcopal military academy in Catonsville, Maryland. He attended the Bel Air Academy and was an indifferent student whom the headmaster thought was "not deficient in intelligence, but disinclined to take advantage of the educational opportunities offered him." In 1850–1851, he attended the Quaker-run Milton Boarding School for Boys located in Sparks, Maryland, and later St. Īs a boy, Booth was athletic and popular, and he became skilled at horsemanship and fencing. The Booth family was listed as living in Baltimore in the 1850 census. īooth's father built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home in 1851, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore. Nora Titone suggests in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody (2010) that the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's actor sons Edwin and John Wilkes eventually spurred them to strive for achievement and acclaim as rivals-Edwin as a Unionist and John Wilkes as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Thirty years after he had absconded across the Atlantic Ocean, Junius' wife Adelaide Delannoy Booth was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed Junius on May 10, 1851, John Wilkes' 13th birthday. He was named after English radical politician John Wilkes, a distant relative. They purchased a 150-acre (61 ha) farm near Bel Air, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children. Of the eight conspirators later convicted, four were soon hanged.īooth's parents were noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress, Mary Ann Holmes, who moved to the United States from England in June 1821. After the authorities set the barn ablaze, Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him in the neck. Booth's companion David Herold surrendered, but Booth maintained a standoff. Booth fled on horseback to Southern Maryland twelve days later, at a farm in rural Northern Virginia, he was tracked down sheltered in a barn. Seward, severely wounded, recovered, whereas Vice President Johnson was never attacked. Lincoln's death the next morning completed Booth's piece of the plot. Johnston continued fighting.īooth shot President Lincoln once in the back of the head. Lee, had surrendered to the Union Army four days earlier, Booth believed that the Civil War remained unresolved because the Army of Tennessee of General Joseph E. Although the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. ![]() They later decided to murder him, as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Originally, Booth and his small group of conspirators had plotted to kidnap Lincoln to aid the Confederate cause. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer denouncing President Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States. John Wilkes Booth (– April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. ![]()
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