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The Booth family was an English American theatrical family of the 19th century. Its most known members were brothers Edwin Booth , one of the leading actors of his day, and John Wilkes Booth , also a fellow actor most remembered for assassinating Abraham Lincoln .
William Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, the second son of five children born to Samuel Booth and his second wife, Mary Moss. [1] His birthplace is now a museum. [ 2 ] Booth's father was a nailmaker and builder from Belper in Derbyshire but, during William's childhood, the family descended into poverty.
Pages in category "Family of William Booth" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Edwin Booth Family Collection archives are held in the University Library at California State University, Northridge. [44] In 1894, Booth's daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, published a book about her father, reportedly concerned that his legacy as an actor would be marred by his brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. [45]
The Booth family regularly moved from place to place as William Booth's ministry necessitated until the family finally settled in London in 1865. Bramwell Booth was involved in The Salvation Army right from its origins as the obscure Christian Mission , established in Whitechapel in 1865, into an international organisation with numerous and ...
Catherine Booth organized Food for the Million shops where the poor could buy a cheap meal and at Christmas, hundreds of meals were distributed to the needy. [9] When the name was changed in 1878 to The Salvation Army and William Booth became known as the General, Catherine became known as the 'Mother of The Salvation Army.' She was behind many ...
Emma Booth-Tucker (1860–1903), Salvation Army officer, 4th child of William and Catherine Booth; Ernie Booth (1876–1935), New Zealand rugby union player and coach; Eugene T. Booth (1912–2004), American nuclear physicist; Evangeline Booth (1865–1950), 4th General of the Salvation Army, 7th child of William and Catherine Booth
William Booth Taliaferro was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, to an Anglo-Italian family, the Taliaferros.He was the son of Frances Amanda Todd (Booth) and Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro, [1] and the nephew of James A. Seddon, who would become Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis.