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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Burials at Green Mount Cemetery, Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Baltimore), Burials at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Burials at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Edgar Allan Poe, John Wilkes Booth, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Francis Asbury, Joseph E. Johnston, George H. Steuart, Louis McLane, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Benjamin Huger, John Carroll, Martin John Spalding, Isaac R. Trimble, James Gibbons, William Henry Leonard Poe, Michael Joseph Curley, Francis Kenrick, Harriet Lane, William Henry Rinehart, E. Stanley Jones, John H. Winder, Samuel Smith, John Archibald Campbell, Edward Coote Pinkney, Jesse D. Bright, Henry Winter Davis, William Pinkney Whyte, Samuel Eccleston, Erastus B. Tyler, Arnold Elzey, Robert Smith, Beverly Waugh, Philip Barton Key II, James Whitfield, James McHenry, Jesse Lee, John Emory, John Stricker, Enoch George, Lewis Henry Little, Ambrose Marechal, Edward Raymond Ames, Stub Brown, Robert Strawbridge, Frank Selman, Samuel Arnold, Anthony Kennedy, Daniel Moreau Barringer, Loddie Stupka, John G. Sproston, Samuel Sterett, Alexander McKim, James Morrison Harris. Excerpt: John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well known actor. He was also a Confederate sympathizer vehement in his denunciation of the Lincoln Administration and outraged by the South's defeat in the American Civil War. He strongly opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves. Booth and a group of co-conspirators planned to kill Lincoln, ...
