Person:Edwin Booth (8)

Generally regarded as the foremost American Shakespearean actor of the 19th century.

During the Civil War he saved the life of Robert Lincoln, President Lincoln's son, at a train station in Chicago. Booth pulled the young army officer back onto the train platform he had fallen off of just before an oncoming train came though.

New York City, New York, 1880 census:^[3]

[Unnamed hotel with 80 boarders. including:]

Booth, Edwin T. 46 yrs Boarder Actor b. Maryland (parents, b. England)

      Mary F. 38 yrs Boarder At home b. New York (parents, b. New York)

      Edwina 18 yrs Boarder At home b. England (parents, b. Maryland/New York)

London, England, 1881 census:^[4]

Booth, Edwin Head 44 yrs Artist, Theatrical b. "US. America"

      Mary F. Wife 32 yrs Artist's Wife b. "US. America"

      Edwina Dau 19 yrs Artist's Dau b. Middlesex, Fulham

Luck, Marie Servant 34 yrs Nurse b. Hampshire, Southsea

Beasley, Elizabeth Servant 31 yrs Nurse b. Kent, Maidstone

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Kauffman, Michael W. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies. (New York: Random House, 2004)
   p. 415.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave.

   Edwin Booth

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 New York, New York, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9)
   ED 280, p. 129B, dwelling/family 157/250 (223 Fifth Ave).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 London, England. 1881 Census Returns of England and Wales
   Folio 42, p. 27, #313 (23 Weymouth St).
5. ↑ New York (New York). Department of Health. Index to deaths, New York City, 1888-1965. (New York, New York: Photographed by Microfilming Service, Recordak, 1963)
   Cert. #21187.