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John Wilkes Booth’s Parents

August 9, 2016 by Jennifer

Did you know that John Wilkes Booth was born in Maryland in 1838, the second youngest of ten children? His parents were the acclaimed British actor Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Homes, a Covent Garden flower girl.

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