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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Booth, John Wilkes, (search)
Booth, John Wilkes, Assassin born in Harford county, Md., in 1839: son of Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of Edwin T. Booth: made his appearance as an actor in early manhood. When the Civil War broke out he took sides with the South. Brooding over the lost cause of the Confederacy he formed a conspiracy with Powell, Surratt, and others, to assassinate President Lincoln. O n the evening of April 14, 1865, the President, Mrs. Lincoln, and a party of friends went to Ford's Theatre, in Washwent to Ford's Theatre, in Washington, to witness a performance of Our American cousin. While the play was in progress Booth entered the President's box, and shot the President in the back of the head. Then, shouting Sic semper tyrannis! the assassin leaped upon the stage and made his escape on a horse in waiting. He was pursued and overtaken, concealed in a bar n near Bowling Green . Va., and, refusing John Wilkes Booth. to surrender, was shot dead, April 26, 1865. See Lincoln, Abraham.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
g 6,072,754 acres, purchased by the government for $8,596,736, to be added to Oklahoma......May 18, 1893 Jefferson Davis's remains removed from New Orleans, May 28, and reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.......May 31, 1893 Official notice that the Italian and German legations at Washington are made embassies......June 2 and 3, President promulgates the extradition treaty with Russia, ratified at St. Petersburg April 21, to go into effect June 24......June 5, 1893 Edwin T. Booth, actor, born near Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 1833, dies in New York City......June 7, 1893 Gold reserve in the United States treasury falls below $89,600,000......June 8, 1893 Floor of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C., used by the pension record division of the War Office, falls while nearly 400 government clerks are at work in the building; twenty-one killed, sixty-eight injured......June 9, 1893 Battle-ship Massachusetts launched at Messrs. Cramp & Sons' ship-yards in Philadel