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Born in Charles County, Maryland into a Roman Catholic family, Samuel Mudd was the fourth of 10 children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann (Reeves) Mudd. He grew up on Oak Hill, his father's tobacco plantation of several hundred acres, which was worked by 89 slaves and was located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Washington, D.C. [1] [2]: 161
In 1792 he married Mary Mudd, daughter of Luke Mudd. [4] [12] [nb 1] In January 1797 Mordecai sold his inherited property in Jefferson County that had been purchased by his father in 1780. He sold the 400 acres for £400. Four months later, [12] he purchased 300 acres in Springfield, Kentucky for £100 from Terah Templin. Templin was Kentucky's ...
After years of petitions from Dr. Mudd's wife, Spangler's former boss John T. Ford and attorney Thomas Ewing Jr., President Andrew Johnson pardoned Spangler, Dr. Mudd and Samuel Arnold on March 1, 1869. The group traveled back to Baltimore on a steamer, arriving on April 6.
He was survived by 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mudd was a collateral descendant of Samuel Mudd (meaning he descended from another branch within the same extensive family tree), the doctor who was imprisoned for allegedly aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. [37]
The two men ended up in Maryland, at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. And after Lincoln's death, it was, in fact, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who was put on Booth's trail—exactly as the show depicts.
Matt Walsh, best known for a very different political series in “Veep,” plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, who fixed Booth’s broken leg after the shooting. (It’s largely forgotten that Mudd, who had ...
On Nov 9 1864 Boyle sent death threats to Dr. George Mudd, the cousin of Dr. Samuel Mudd - and later sent death threats to Watkins. [1] Boyle eventually returned to Watkin's home on March 25, 1865, with several cohorts, and sources differ on whether they knocked on the door and shot Watkins upon being greeted or snuck in a side door and shot ...
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