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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Junius Brutus Booth
		Booth and Mary Ann (to whom he claimed to be married) settled near Bel Air, Maryland in a farmhouse which Booth later remodelled and named "Tudor Hall." He then embarked upon a thirty-year acting career that made him famous throughout the country.
		Brutus was the son of Decimus Junius Brutus, a relatively unimportant politician, and Servilia Caepionis, half-sister of Cato the younger and mistress of Julius Caesar.
		Titus Junius Brutus Titus Junius Brutus was the eldest son of the traditional founder of the Republic of Rome, the Patrician Lucius Junius Brutus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Junius-Brutus-Booth (1520 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an actor and father of John Wilkes and Edwin Booth.
		Booth emigrated to the United States in 1821, settling near Bel Air, Maryland on a farm he called "Tudor Hall." He then embarked upon a thirty-year acting career that made him famous throughout the country.
		Booth traveled to such cities as Baltimore, Boston and New York; he was particularly acclaimed in New Orleans due to his ability to perform in French.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junius_Brutus_Booth (420 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth
		In New York, Booth was conspicuously associated with the old Park Theatre, the Bowery, and the National; in Boston, with the Tremont, the Federal, and the Museum; in both cities, and indeed throughout the United States, he was a prodigious favourite.
		Booth was a wild, strange being, as mysterious and as grand as "The Ancient Mariner," which of all poems he loved best, and which is an apt emblem of his haunted spirit.
		Booth's peculiar grandeur was in the region of the supernatural and the terrible."
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /boothjb.htm (2171 words)

	John Wilkes Booth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Booth's family was from Maryland, a border state which remained loyal to the Union during the war despite a slaveholding population that was strongly sympathetic to the Southern cause.
		Booth later learned that the President had changed plans at the last moment to attend a reception at the National Hotel in Washington, which ironically was where Booth lived.
		Booth was dragged from the fire and he died on the porch of the farmhouse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth (2560 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth
		Booth's brother-in-law, the celebrated comedian John S. Clarke, was his partner in the management of the Winter Garden theatre, and they associated with themselves an old journalist and theatrical agent, William Stuart (real name, Edmund O'Flaherty), formerly of Galway, Ireland, but then an exile.
		Booth's theatre had a career of thirteen years, and its stage was adorned with some of the grandest pageants and graced by the presence of some of the most renowned actors that have been seen in this century.
		Booth's theatre was almost invariably a prosperous house" but it was not economically managed, and for this reason, and this alone, it eventually carried its owner into bankruptcy.
	famousamericans.net /juniusbrutusbooth (3172 words)

	Edwin Booth (1833-1893)
		BOOTH, EDWIN [THOMAS] (1833-1893), American actor, was the second son of Junius Brutus Booth, and was born in Belair, Maryland, on the 13th of November 1833.
		The three Booth brothers, Junius Brutus (1821-1883), Edwin and John Wilkes (1839-1865), had played together in Julius Caesar in the autumn of the previous year--the performance being memorable both for its own excellence, and for the tragic situation into which two of the principal performers were subsequently hurled by the crime of the third.
		Edwin Booth did not reappear on the stage until the 3rd of January 1866, when he played Hamlet at the Winter Garden theatre, the audience showing by unstinted applause their conviction that the glory of the one brother would never be imperilled by the infamy of the other.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/booth001.html (963 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796 – November 30, 1852) was an actor and father of John Wilkes and Edwin Booth.
		Booth traveled to such cities as Baltimore, Boston and New York ; he was particularly acclaimed in New Orleans due to his ability to perform in French.
		Brutus Album foto al unui motănel foarte jucăuş pe nume Brutus.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Junius_Brutus_Booth.html (576 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth
		Booth's brother-in-law, the celebrated comedian John S. Clarke, was his partner in the management of the Winter Garden theatre, and they associated with themselves an old journalist and theatrical agent, William Stuart (real name, Edmund O'Flaherty), formerly of Galway, Ireland, but then an exile.
		Booth's theatre had a career of thirteen years, and its stage was adorned with some of the grandest pageants and graced by the presence of some of the most renowned actors that have been seen in this century.
		Booth's theatre was almost invariably a prosperous house" but it was not economically managed, and for this reason, and this alone, it eventually carried its owner into bankruptcy.
	www.famousamericans.net /juniusbrutusbooth (3171 words)

	Booth Junius Brutus: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BOOTH WAS THE FOURTH SON OF JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH, tragedian, and Mary Ann...evident that she married Junius Brutus Booth, who was already married...
		Junius Brutus Booth, father of Edwin, was born...
		Junius Brutus Booth, the familys British-born patriarch, settled on the...Traveling sometimes on foot when funds ran low, Junius Booth performed the classics in rude California mining...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101233581 (1165 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in London Booth displayed remarkable talent from an age deciding on a career in the by the age of seventeen.
		Booth emigrated to the United States in settling near Bel Air Maryland on a farm he called "Tudor He then embarked upon a thirty-year acting that made him famous throughout the country.
		His acclaim continued grow throughout the rest of his life; Walt Whitman described him as "the grandest historian modern times." However his marriage was a one and he suffered the loss of children.
	www.freeglossary.com /Junius_Booth (512 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		In 1864 Booth devised a scheme to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in Washington.
		Booth decided to carry out the deed on 17th March, 1865 when Lincoln was planning to attend a play at the Seventh Street Hospital that was situated on the outskirts of Washington.
		Booth, to seek any information from me at all; I know who you are and what are your intentions." He hesitated some time, but finally said he would make known his views to me provided I would promise secrecy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWbooth.htm (2381 words)

	Booth, Junius Brutus (1 May 1796-30 Nov
		Booth, Junius Brutus (1 May 1796-30 Nov. 1852), actor, was born in London, England, the son of Richard Booth, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Game, who named him after the Roman patriot Lucius Junius Brutus.
		Booth began at this point to show signs of alcoholism and latent madness, causing him to threaten his fellow actors.
		Booth's "line of business," as it was then called, was that of leading tragedian, and although his favorite role was the gentle Hamlet, his most successful characterizations were Machiavellan villains such as Iago and Richard III.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpXII/JuniusBooth.htm (1028 words)

	Talk:Marcus Junius Brutus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brutus was a protege (sorta), but adoption was a serious legal proceding which I do not think applies to this situation.
		The reasons are simple: not only do we have two historical Brutuses -- M. Junius and L. Junius -- but also Geoffrey of Monmouth's Brutus, the founder of the British race, and Popeye's antagonist.
		I think the fact of Julius Caesar being 15 when Brutus was born is a poor argument against the fact that Caesar might have been Brutus' father.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Brutus (754 words)

	Surratt House Museum/John Wilkes Booth/Abraham Lincoln/Civil War/Assassination/Surratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Junius Brutus Booth was born in 1796 and married Adelaide Delannoy in May of 1815.
		Junius managed to keep his first wife and son in the dark about his Maryland family for 25 years--until his son by Adelaide, Richard, came to America in the late 1830's and discovered the truth.
		One persistent Booth family myth is that Richard went South during the Civil War and all trace of him was lost.
	www.surratt.org /su_jwb.html (488 words)

	John Wilkes Booth: A Brutus Of His Age
		John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in a large log cabin set in a clearing among the lilac-strewn primeval forests of northern Maryland, not far below the Pennsylvania border.
		He was the ninth child of pretty, raven-haired Mary Ann Holmes and Junius Brutus Booth, a barrel-chested stage actor who had made a name for himself as a fine interpreter of Shakespeare.
		In answer, she saw the flames in the open hearth form the image of letters that, as she studied them, spelled the word "country." This, she believed, meant that he was to endure the fires of persecution, but emerge as patriot in the final act.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/assassins/booth/2.html (926 words)

	MSN Encarta - John Wilkes Booth
		He was the son of the actor Junius Brutus Booth, born in Bel Air, Maryland.
		He was a violent partisan of the cause of the South in the American Civil War and in 1864 organized an unsuccessful conspiracy to abduct President Abraham Lincoln.
		Booth jumped down to the stage, breaking his leg, but escaped from the theater.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573391/Booth_John_Wilkes.html (144 words)

	The Booths of Harford County
		Almost immediately, Junius began a successful whirlwind tour that took him to six states and a number of major cities including New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. Thus began a career that would make Junius Brutus Booth a major figure on the American stage for the next 30 years.
		Whatever brought Junius here; there is little doubt that the beauty and serenity of the area appealed to his love of the natural world and his desire for a retreat from the turmoil of the theatrical world.
		Junius purchased a log cabin located on a neighbor's farm and had it moved to a location near a spring on his new farm.
	www.harfordhistory.net /Booths.htm (992 words)

	Congressional Medal of Honor - President Abraham Lincoln, He Created the Medal of Honor
		However, J. Wilkes Booth (as he was known professionally) led a very prominent life as an actor in the years preceding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
		Booth was frequently seen in the company of many women, and in one passage author Samples wrote that Booth often "lounged" in the arms of Ellen Starr, who was in Washington at the time of the Lincoln assassination.
		Booth carried with him a letter of introduction from the Confederates, with whom he had conferred, addressed to Dr. William Queen of Charles County, Maryland.
	www.medalofhonor.com /AbrahamLincoln.htm (2176 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an (A theatrical performer) actor and father of (English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)) John Wilkes and (Click link for more info and facts about Edwin Booth) Edwin Booth.
		This did not however stop the two from performing in the same plays; Kean and Booth acted in several Shakespearian productions at the (Click link for more info and facts about Drury Lane Theatre) Drury Lane Theatre from 1817 to 1821.
		Booth emigrated to the United States in 1821, settling near (Click link for more info and facts about Bel Air, Maryland) Bel Air, Maryland on a farm he called "Tudor Hall." He then embarked upon a thirty-year acting career that made him famous throughout the country.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Ju/Junius_Brutus_Booth.htm (433 words)

	booth
		John Wilkes Booth was born May 10, 1838 to one of the United States' most distinguished acting families of the nineteenth century.
		Booth was in demand as an actor throughout the Civil War.
		Booth was even a volunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged Abolitionist John Brown in 1859.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/mcilwainp/booth.html (745 words)

	The Search for the Real John Wilkes Booth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the Booths' winter home on Exeter Street in Baltimore, Edwin and his friends, many of whom would grow up to be prominent actors, played out their first parts in the spacious backyard.
		The elder Booth, considered by many in his day to be the first great American actor, would frequently walk onto the stage while completely inebriated, adding to the fire of some of his Shakespearian roles.
		Realizing that abduction was now useless, Booth devised a plan which he apparently hoped would throw the North into complete chaos and pave the way for a last stand by the South: kill the President, the Vice-President and the Secretary of State all in one night.
	www.users.interport.net /c/a/candidus/wilkes-1.htm (3443 words)

	Brutus — FactMonster.com
		And thou, unhappy Brutus, kind of heart, Whose steady arm, by awful virtue urged, Lifted the Roman steel against thy friend.
		Brut - Brut Brut, Brute, or Brutus, a Trojan, legendary founder of the British race, descendant of Aeneas.
		Brutus, in ancient Rome - Brutus Brutus, in ancient Rome, a surname of the Junian gens.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/brutus.html (175 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		His advocacy of slavery and support of the Confederacy during the Civil War engendered a deep hatred in him for the newly elected President Lincoln.
		Booth entered the unguarded presidential box during the third act of the play, shot Lincoln through the back of the head with a pistol, and then leaped down onto the stage, shouting "Sic semper tyrannis!
		The troops set fire to the building, and Booth probably died during the ensuing gun battle or may even have shot himself.
	sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/booth.html (194 words)

	Edwin Booth - What Will Make Us Truly Important?
		Edwin Booth was born November 13, 1833, in his family's log cabin in rural Maryland, the seventh child of Mary Ann and Junius Brutus Booth.
		Junius Booth was the preeminent American actor of his day, best known for his King Lear and Richard II.
		It steadied [the elder Booth] to re-enter his dressing room after a performance and find Edwin there, wan, rather taciturn, but instantly and silently solicitous of his father's comfort...it was this son's voice, a quiet voice, that could recall the father when Booth was wound about in melancholy or lost in frenzy.
	home.nyc.rr.com /bcmnc/Bennett/ActorsAndDrama/Edwin_Booth_section1.html (589 words)

	Edwin T. Booth Papers, 1860-1874
		Edwin Thomas Booth (1833-1893) was born to the stage.
		His father, Junius Brutus Booth was of a notable English theatre family and well established both in America and Europe.
		Signatures and notes of Agnes Booth, wife of Junius B. Booth Jr., and performer in both La Femme de Feu and Cleopatra, along with those of her son, Sydney, appear on many of the scripts and prompt books.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg587.htm (710 words)

	Across America with 'Junius Brutus Booth' by Elizabeth Robins
		Booth talks of his Sandwich Island expereince as Lessee of the Royal Hawaian Theatre, of how the natives took 'Richard the Third,' and of his travels in Australia and the South Sea Islands.
		Booth refers to his anachronistic dressing of some of his rôles, the more wonderful in that he costumed such a part as 'Don Felix' so correctly, as shown by his portrait in a medallion over our heads in the rechristened J.B.B., formerly 'the Garrick.' Mr.
		Booth tells us of Helen Hunt's lonely grave on a mountain top near Manitou, Colorado, and this Southern California seems full of her memory.
	www.jsu.edu /depart/english/robins/docshort/acramjbb.htm (4504 words)

	@ugusta: The Augusta Chronicle Online: Celebrate 2000Booth family was favored for tragedies 07/01/99
		The Booths, one of the greatest acting families of the 19th century, were known as tragedians because they packed theaters with their performances of Shakespearean tragedies.
		Booth's performance of the `hump-backed' tyrant last night was fully equal to the best efforts of his palmiest days,'' The Chronicle reported the next day.
		Although Richard III was a favorite of the Booths, it was another Shakespearean tragedy, Julius Caesar, for which the three Booth brothers united Nov. 25, 1864, to perform before a standing-room-only crowd at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, with John Wilkes playing Marc Antony, Edwin as Brutus and Junius as Cassius.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/070199/cy2_124-3625.shtml (1049 words)

	John Wilkes Booth: A Brutus Of His Age
		Designed by one James Gifford after the mode of the country manor houses in Booth’s native England, it was resplendent with cross-pane windows and a Romeo and Juliet-style balcony facing the rising sun.
		After the farming work was done for the day, Squire Junius brought his family together before Tudor Hall’s roaring parlor fire to pour over dramas and sagas from the Booth bookshelves.
		Junius Brutus Booth died in 1858, prompting poet Walt Whitman to write, "there went the greatest and by far the most noble Roman of them all." The liquor he consumed had finally poisoned his system.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/assassins/booth/3.html (1236 words)

	Booth, Junius Brutus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Booth, Junius Brutus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He appeared in London 1817–20, at Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres, in such Shakespearean parts as Richard III, Shylock, King Lear, and Iago, the last to Edmund Kean's Othello.
		He was the father of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Booth%2c+Junius+Brutus (116 words)

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