Edwin Booth (1833 - 1893)
Booth's grave in Cambridge, Massachusetts
November 13th 1833: Edwin Booth born
On this day in 1833 Edwin Booth, the famous American actor and brother of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, was born. Booth was one of the most famous actors of his day, and was considered the greatest Hamlet of the 19th century. In an interesting coincidence, Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert’s life when Robert almost fell onto the tracks at a train station in Jersey City in late 1864/early 1865. The fact that he had saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother’s assassination of the President.
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