Junius Brutus Booth's wife, Adelaide Delannoy Booth, was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed John Wilkes Booth's father on May 10, 1851, the youth's 13th birthday.

The same year that Booth's father married Holmes ( 1851 ), he built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore in the 1840s – 1850s.

Booth's mother was Episcopalian and his father was described as a free spirit, preferring a Sunday walk along the Baltimore waterfront with his children to attending church.

Booth's father was a Wall Street stock broker and her mother a housewife.

Booth's father was wealthy by the standards of the time, but during his childhood, as a result of bad investments, the family descended into poverty and his father became an alcoholic.

The name " Cranbrook " was chosen since Cranbrook, England was the birthplace of George Booth's father.

Booth's father pressed Booth to do a multitude of professions.

Booth's daughter Asia wrote that her father spoke fluent French and cited a review on the subject.

From Kean's time forward, many actors who have played the role — with the notable exception of Edwin Booth, who played him as a simple villain — have chosen a sympathetic approach to the character ; even Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, played the role sympathetically.

Booth's parents, the noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, came to the United States from England in June 1821.

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's three illegitimate actor sons, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. ( who never achieved the stage stardom of his two younger actor brothers ) Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, spurred them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

L-to-r: Booth's sons, John, Edwin and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar ( play ) | Julius Caesar

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of actor Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, spurred them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865 ( with the run ending just a few months before Booth's brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and would later revive the role at his own Booth's Theatre ( which was managed for a time by his brother Junius Brutus Booth, Jr .).

He played Othello to Edwin Booth's Iago and Cassius to his Brutus.

Booth's companion gave himself up, but Booth refused and was shot by a Union soldier after the barn in which he was hiding was set ablaze.

As recounted by Booth's sister, Asia Booth Clarke, in her memoirs written in 1874, no one church was preeminent in the Booth household.

Booth's sister, Margaret Booth later a famous MGM editor, never forgave Browning for the loss of her brother.

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London.

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol slum, including Bethnal Green Road

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing Wapping in 1889, published in Life and Labour of the People in London.

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing Commercial Road in Whitechapel 1889.

Booth also owned and operated a commercial ferry here from about 1800, thus the area's second popular designation — Booth's Ferry.

Booth's servant, Marty, comes in with his daily medication, and Booth ruefully takes it while noting that his young wife's infidelity is common knowledge.

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London.

However, Booth was not departing from his spiritual convictions to set-up a socialist or communist society or sub-class, supported by people forced to finance his plans ; Booth's ultimate aim was to get people " saved.

In Booth's honour, Vachel Lindsay wrote the poem, " General William Booth Enters Into Heaven ".

Realizing that young women would also need a place of their own to learn, Booth's wife Ellen Scripps Booth pressured Booth into building a school for girls.

Sydney had a close but secret friendship with Garrett Booth ( Shane McDermott ), Grant Booth's son ; but the parents found out and built a literal wall between them and their houses.

After John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, the infamy associated with the Booth name forced Edwin Booth to abandon the stage for many months.

In 1887, because of his fame as Booth's killer, Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka.

Edwin Booth's Hamlet was described as " like the dark, mad, dreamy, mysterious hero of a poem ... in an ideal manner, as far removed as possible from the plane of actual life ".

She was unaware of Booth's deep antipathy towards President Lincoln.

No conclusive proof has linked Booth's kidnapping or assassination plots to a conspiracy involving the leadership of the Confederate government, although historians such as David Herbert Donald have said, " It is clear that, at least at the lower levels of the Southern secret service, the abduction of the Union President was under consideration ".

Gaining the royal seal of approval, Booth's motorized vacuum cleaner was used to clean the carpets of Westminster Abbey prior to Edward VII's coronation in 1901.

) The settlement of Philippi — formerly " Anglin's Ford " and " Booth's Ferry " — was platted, named, and made the county seat in the same year ; it was chartered in 1844.

Powell's attack on Seward was coordinated with Booth's attack on President Abraham Lincoln and George Atzerodt's attack on Vice President Andrew Johnson in order to maximize the element of surprise and to sever the continuity of the United States government.

It was then a farm belonging to William F. Wilson, and the locality had long been known as Booth's Ferry.

Although the area was dominated by the well-to-do middle and upper-middle classes as late as Booth's 1889 Map of London Poverty, parts of Pimlico are said to have declined significantly by the 1890s.

The " current " play, " The Great Seed ", was written by Booth's best friend, the late Barney Flueger.

Davenant once again found himself in legal trouble in 1659, when he was imprisoned for his part in Sir George Booth's uprising in Cheshire.