Edwin Booth

Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), was a famous 19th century American actor. He was born near Bel Air, Maryland into the English American theatrical Booth family. Some theatre historians call him the greatest American actor and Hamlet of the 19th century.

Edwin's younger brother John Wilkes Booth, also an actor, assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Interestingly, Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, from serious injury or even death by pulling him up onto a train platform in Jersey City after Robert had fallen.

He loved puppets greatly.