These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Booth, Booth, Boothia Felix.
AGNES (MRS. JOHN B. SHOEFFEL), an American actress, born in Sydney, Australia, in 1846. She made her first American appearance in New York in 1865, becoming later Edwin Forrest's leading lady. She assumed numerous famous rôles with success. She died Jan. 2, 1910.
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BALLINGTON, General of the Volunteers of America, born in Brighouse, England, July 28, 1859. He is a son of Gen. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, with which body he was officially connected until 1896, when he seceded and founded the Volunteers, a religious military body organized in the interest of the unchurched masses. He has been repeatedly appointed_General-in-Chief of the organization. on. organization Is the . author of many well known hymns. His wife, MAUDE, ably seconded her husband's efforts, and was very popular on the lecture platform.
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EDWIN THOMAS, an American actor, born near Belair, Md., Nov. 13, 1833; the fourth son of JUNIUS BRU- TUS BOOTH (q. v.). When 16 years of age, he made his first appearance on the stage, in the part of Tressel, his father acting as Richard III. Two years later he himself successfully assumed the part of Richard in place of his father, who unexpectedly refused to fulfill an evening's engagement. The following year the two went to California, where the son remained for several years, visiting Australia meanwhile. Meeting with little pecuniary success, in 1856, he returned to the Atlantic States, and from that time forward was recognized as a leading member of his profession. He visited England (1861-1862), and in 1864 produced "Hamlet" at New York for 100 nights consecutively. In 1869 he opened a splendid theater in New York, whose building cost over $1,000,- 000, but which involved him in pecuniary ruin. He revisited California in 1876, and in the spring of 1877 was able to settle with his creditors, having earned during the season over $600,000. Booth visited Great Britain and Germany in 1880-1882, and was everywhere received with enthusiasm. He died in New York, June 7, 1893.
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JUNIUS BRUTUS, an Anglo- American tragedian, born in the parish of St. Pancras, London, May 1, 1796. He received a classical education but early manifested a predilection for the stage, and when 17 years of age appeared in some unimportant parts. Subsequently he played Richard III., at Covent Gorden, a part in which he suddenly became famous. In 1821 he went to the United States, where for the ensuing 30 years he followed his profession much success. with He died suddenly on board a Mississippi river steamer, Nov. 12, 1852.
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JOHN WILKES, an American actor, born in Harford county, Md., in 1838; another son of JUNIUS BRUTUS BooTH. He sided with the Confederates in the Civil War, and to avenge the defeat of their cause he formed a con- EDWIN BOOTH spiracy against the life of President Lincoln. He mortally wounded the President, while the latter was attending a performance in Ford's Theater, in Washington, on April 14, 1865; broke his own leg in escaping scaping from the building; and concealed himself in Virginia till the 26th, when, on being discovered, and refusing to surrender, he was shot.
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WILLIAM, founder and General of the Salvation Army, was born at Nottingham, England, April 10, 1829, was educated there, and from 1850 to 1861, acted as minister of the Methodist New Connection. From the first he was zealous in holding evangelistic services, but the new departure wh which led to the creation of the Salvation Army on military lines began in 1865 with mission work among the lower classes in the East End of London. Since 1878 Booth's movement has been known as the Salvation Army, of which he continued to be the mainspring and controlling power, directing its movements at home and abroad from his headquarters in London. His enthusiasm and wonderful organizing power gave life to the religious military system, of which he is really "general." His wife was associated with him in the publication of several hymns and religious works dealing with the movement, till her death in 1890. Mr. Booth died in London, Aug. 20, 1912.
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a peninsula on the N. coast of North America, in which is the most northern part of the continent, Murchison Point, 73° 54′ N. lat. It is joined to the mainland by Boothia Isthmus, is bounded on the N. by Bellot Strait, and to the E. is separated from Cockburn Island by Boothia Gulf, a southward continuation of Prince Regent's Inlet. It was discovered by Sir John Ross (1829-1833), and named after Sir Felix Booth, who had furnished $85,000 for the expedition. Here, on the W. coast, near Cape Adelaide, Ross discovered the magnetic pole, 70° 5′ 17" N. lat., and 96° 46′ 45" W. long.
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or BOUTON, an island of the Malay Archipelago, separated by a narrow strait from the S. E. ray of Celebes, and from the island of Morna. Are Area, 1,700 miles. It is high, but not mountainous, and thickly wooded, produces fine timber, rice, maize, sago, etc. The people are Malays. The Sultan, who resides at Bolio, is in allegiance to the Dutch, an under-resident being stationed on the island. Pop. about 17,000.
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FRANZ, a distinguished German Sanskrit scholar and philologist, born in Mainz, in 1791. In 1812 he went to Paris for the study of Sanskrit and Oriental literature, and remained there five years. After living for some time in London and Göttingen, he settled in Berlin, where he eventually became Ordinary Professor of Oriental Literature. He contributed much to the study of Sanskrit in Europe. His most important work in the field was his "Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Slavonic and German," of which an English translation has been published. His library was purchased by Cornell University. He died in Berlin in 1867.
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Mahomet's mare which he has put in Paradise . She has a human face, and stretches at each step as far as the furthest sight can reach.
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WILLIAM EDGAR, an American public official; born in Wayne at the Southern Illinois Academy, Enfield, Ill., and at the Kansas State University, Lawrence, Kan. He began the practice of law at Lyons, Kan., in 1890. He was elected to the United States Senate from Boise, Idaho, whither he had removed, and was re-elected in 1913 and 1919. He belonged to the Progressive wing of the Republican party and was a prominent and powerful figure in debate and legislation. He was a pronounced supporter of measures looking toward an effective prosecution of the World War. When the Versailles Treaty was up for ratification in the Senate he opposed it vigorously.
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