George A. Parkhurst
George A. Parkhurst | |
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Born | New York State | March 18, 1841
Died | July 2, 1890 | (aged 49)
Occupation(s) | Actor, Civil Servant |
George Augustus Parkhurst (March 18, 1841 – July 2, 1890) was an American stage actor who was one of the last surviving members of the company of actors present on the night of April 14, 1865, when
When Booth shot President Lincoln, Parkhurst was onstage playing the part of a bailiff[3] as a member of a stock company managed by the British actress Laura Keene.[1] Parkhurst had planned to stop by Booth’s dressing room at Ford's Theatre that night to borrow a costume;[1] an appointment that for different reasons both missed.[4]
Career
George A. Parkhurst was born in
Death
Parkhurst died on July 2, 1890, at the age of forty-nine, after suffering a stroke at his New York residence.[1] He was survived by his second wife Clara (née Morell; 1865–1913). Katherine "Kate" Parkhurst (1845–1881), his first wife, was the mother of his three children of which two, Benjamin and Bianca, survived to adulthood.[1][8] Parkhurst was interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.[9]
Lincoln's Death Bed
Some six months before his death Parkhurst made the claim in the press that on the afternoon of April 14, John Wilkes Booth visited an actor friend staying at
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g h Obituary Notice. The New York Times July 4, 1890, p.5
- ^ Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy: A Drama in Three Acts, 1889/1913
- ^ a b The Dr. John K. Lattimer collection of Lincolniana By Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
- ^ a b An Actor’s Career Closed. The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), July 03, 1890; p. 6
- ^ Parkhurst, Peter G. (1995). "George Parkhurst Increasings: For Nine Generations".
- ^ Parkhurst, George, Bergen, New Jersey, 1850 US Census records
- ^ Fanchon, the Cricket in Encyclopædia Britannica accessed 6.8.13
- ^ Parkhurst, George, 1870-1880 Washington, D.C., US Census records
- ^ Prospect Hill Cemetery accessed 6.8.13
- ^ George Parkhurst's Story. St. Paul Daily News (St. Paul, Minnesota), February 18, 1890. p. 3