They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War.

Junior Johnson, seen here in 1985, was a popular NASCAR driver from the 1950s who began as a bootlegging driver from Wilkes County, North Carolina.

* Norman, Georgia, in Wilkes County

* Samuel Alexander Mudd ( 1833 – 1883 ), born in Charles County, the doctor implicated and imprisoned for aiding John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

* Wilkes County, North Carolina-west

Wilkes County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

Wilkes County is also a part of the North Wilkesboro Micropolitan Area.

In 1799 the northern and western parts of Wilkes County became Ashe County.

In 1841 parts of Wilkes County and Burke County were combined to form Caldwell County.

In 1847 another part of Wilkes County was combined with parts of Caldwell County and Iredell County to become Alexander County.

In 1849 additional parts of Wilkes County and Caldwell County were combined with parts of Ashe County and Yancey County to form Watauga County.

Wilkes County is located on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a part of the Appalachian Mountains chain.

Stone Mountain State Park, located in the foothills of northern Wilkes County, is one of the most popular state parks in North Carolina, and is noted for its excellent rock climbing and trout fishing.

Wilkes County is far enough inland that hurricanes rarely cause problems, but a strong hurricane which moves inland quickly enough may cause damage, as with Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

He was named after the English radical politician John Wilkes, a distant relative.

Wilkes named the lower cove Holmes Harbor, after his assistant surgeon, Silas Holmes.

Wilkes had given the name Navy Archipelago to the San Juan Islands, and named individual islands for distinguished officers of the US Navy, such as Rodgers Island for San Juan Island, and Hull Island for Orcas Island.

The settlement was named Wilkes-Barre after John Wilkes and Isaac Barré, two British members of Parliament who supported colonial America.

This idea was eventually expanded into the concept of a multiverse, including such worlds as Earth-Three, which was an " opposite " world where heroes were villains and historical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life ( e. g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the " real world " and used to explain how real-life DC staffers ( such as Julius Schwartz ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth.

It was named for the English political radical John Wilkes, who lost his position as Lord Mayor of the City of London due to his support for the colonists during the American Revolution.

Held on the campus of Wilkes Community College, and named in honor of Doc's late son Merle Watson, MerleFest has grown into the largest folk and bluegrass music festival in the United States, now drawing over 85, 000 music fans each year.

As stated in the Heritage of Alexander County, published by the Alexander County Genealogical Society: A commission of William Dula of Caldwell Co., Dr. James Calloway of Wilkes, Co., Milton Campbell of Iredell Co., and Robert Allen, Reuben Watts and Robert L. Steel of Alexander County were named to select a site as near the center of the county as possible for the seat of justice.

Held on the campus of Wilkes Community College, and named in honor of Doc's late son Merle Watson, MerleFest has grown into the largest folk and bluegrass music festival in the United States, drawing over 85, 000 music fans each year.

In 1889-1890, these feelings were inflamed by an outspoken parishioner named Martin Wilkes, who came to be known in the national press as " the Polish King ".

In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay " Scarborough Harbour " in honor of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company, who had provided assistance to the expedition.

The island was named Fox by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition, to honor J. L.

Logger George Brackett founded Edmonds in 1890, naming the city either for Vermont Sen. George Franklin Edmunds or in association with the nearby Point Edmund, named by Charles Wilkes in 1841 and later changed to Point Edwards.

His efforts against the Stamp Act were commemorated in America with the founding in 1769 of the Pennsylvania town of Wilkes-Barré, named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré.

Charles Wilkes, during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842, named it MacDonough Island in honor of Thomas MacDonough for his victory of the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.

Following this theme, Wilkes named the body of water between Camano and Whidbey Island after MacDonough's flagship the Saratoga.

The US Navy named four ships for Wilkes: torpedo boat served around the turn of the 20th century, destroyer served during World War I, and destroyer served during World War II.

The Maurice Wilkes Award, awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by a young computer scientist or engineer, is named after him.

After a diving team at Wilkes Ice Station is killed, the station sends out a distress signal which is picked up and a team of United States Recon Marines lead by Shane Schofield, code named Scarecrow, arrives at the station.

Also in 1605, he married a woman named Mary, who was probably daughter of William Wilkes, one of King James's chaplains.

Charles Wilkes, the expedition's commander, named Pickering Passage in honor of Charles Pickering.

Wilkes had named Orcas Island " Hull Island ", after Commodore Isaac Hull.

Wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold ( 1865 )

* The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, Addison – Wesley, Edition 1, 1951.

Melanie refuses to accept any criticism of her sister in-law and India Wilkes is banished from the Wilkeses ' home for it, causing a rift in the family.

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.

* 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.

* 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.

The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £ 3, 000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts.

On the recommendation of Wilkes, Lyons recruited John Pinkerton, a radar engineer and research student at Cambridge, as team leader for the project.

Lenaerts returned to Lyons to work on the project, and Wilkes provided training for Lyons ' engineer Derek Hemy, who would be responsible for writing LEO's programs.

* 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.

In 2006, a group of American scientists from The Ohio State University reported evidence for a possible huge meteorite crater ( Wilkes Land crater ) with a diameter of around 500 kilometers in Antarctica.

( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

* January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes ' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.

* January 19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons of Great Britain for seditious libel.

* May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III.

The names that Wilkes gave tended to be patriotically American ( heroes of the War of 1812 for example ), or to honor members of his crew.