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* Boston Corbett was inspired by this same verse to castrate himself ( Corbett was the 19th-century American soldier who is generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth ).
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Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
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After his discharge from the army in August 1865, Corbett went back to work as a hatter, first in Boston, later in Connecticut, and by 1870 in New Jersey.
In 1958, Boy Scout Troop 31 of Concordia, Kansas, built a roadside monument to Boston Corbett.
* Boston Corbett: The Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
* Kansas Photo Tour of Boston Corbett Memorial
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* Boston Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead 1894 ): who killed John Wilkes Booth, castrated himself to avoid temptation from prostitutes
* It is probable that Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, suffered from Korsakoff's syndrome later in life due to his pre-and-post war profession as a hatter, and his eventual madness.
After becoming trapped in a barn by Union Army troops on the property of Richard Henry Garrett, Herold surrendered to the troops, but Booth, refusing to surrender, was shot by Sergeant Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett through a crack in the barn wall, and died a few hours later.
Herold surrendered, but Booth refused to lay down his arms and suffered a mortal gunshot wound from Sergeant Boston Corbett, who was ratified in his actions, as orders to hold fire had not been given.
He was shot and killed by Union Army Sergeant Boston Corbett.
Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, had performed self-surgery earlier in life.
Booth was caught on April 26, 1865, but was killed by Boston Corbett, a soldier who violated orders.
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* Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett, the Union soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth ( President Abraham Lincoln's assassin ), is presumed to have died in the fire.
Conger set fire to the barn and Sergeant Boston Corbett mortally wounded Booth by shooting him in the neck.
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For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.
Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.
He was thrown out, more or less, from Boston, Plymouth, Pocasset, Newport, and Providence.
With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.
The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.
The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.
In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.
He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.
'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.
In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.
The nearest undisrupted end of track from Boston was at Concord, N. H..
-- Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball.
Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.
He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.
In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.
The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.
Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.
If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.
His most well-known teaching position was at the Temple School in Boston.
He moved to Boston on April 24, 1828, and was immediately impressed, referring to the city as a place " where the light of the sun of righteousness has risen.
" Alcott began to believe Boston was the best place for his ideas to flourish.
It was named the Temple School because classes were held at the Masonic Temple on Tremont Street in Boston.
Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.
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