John Wilkes Booth will eternally be known as the man who murder President Abraham Lincoln. Booth, a native of Maryland, was a fierce associate sympathizer during the Civil War. The renowned actor Junius Brutus Booth immigrated to the United States from England in the early 1820s and established his family in Harford County, Maryland, anywhere the ninth of his 10 children, John Wilkes, was born on May 10, 1838. In 1846, it was exposed that Junius Booth had abandoned to divorce his first wife before eloping with his second, Mary Ann, 25 years back.
After his father's death in 1852, Booth left his studies at the important military school St. Timothy's Hall. In 1855, he pursues his older brothers, Junius Jr. and Edwin, into the acting occupation, making his entry in Shakespeare's Richard III at the Charles Street Theatre in Baltimore.
Booth worked for a year at a Philadelphia theater before stirring to the Marshall Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, where he became recognized for his dark good looks, his powerfully physical, almost energetic, presentation and his reputation with women.
That summer, he signed on as the significant man in a touring theater company. Booth was regarding to take on the part of Hamlet in October 1860 when he fortuitously shot himself in the thigh with a co-star's gun. Abraham Lincoln was designated president one month later, and Booth observes the South move toward secession while improving in Philadelphia.
In late May 1864, Booth provide in an oil company in western Pennsylvania. After considering no instant profit, he backed out of the procedure, losing most of his savings. By that time, he had previously begun working on his scheme to kidnap Lincoln. He achieves less and less regularly, and by late 1864 had gone into liability.
