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.
John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1864
Tudor Hall in 1865
The Booth Family gravesite, Green Mount Cemetery
Edwin Thomas Booth was an American actor who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Theatre in New York. Some theatrical historians consider him the greatest American actor, and the greatest Prince Hamlet, of the 19th century. His achievements are often overshadowed by his relationship with his younger brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
Portrait of Booth, c. 1886
Edwin Booth with daughter Edwina, circa 1864
Portrait of Edwin Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890, which hung at The Players clubhouse. Now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Booth's Theatre Playbill of his Richard III circa 1872
