Tag: Boston Corbett
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Memorial Methodist Protestant Church
313 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ The following is derived from George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey published in 1886. Memorial Methodist Protestant Church is situated on Liberty Street, above Third. Religious services of this denomination were first held weekly in Camden, in 1865, at the house of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Salinda…
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Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett
Sergeant Thomas Patrick Corbett, also known as “Boston” Corbett, is famous for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Corbett lived in Camden for several years, residing at 308 Mechanic Street and later on Pine Street below South 4th Street. He also briefly served as a pastor of the Memorial…
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Religious History of Camden
From George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886 Newton Friend’s Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month,…
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The Lincoln Assassin Mystery
Stars and Stripes – November 23, 1964 TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) – He shot and killed the assassin who shot the President. He was arrested. His sanity became a question. Jack Ruby? No, his name was Boston Corbett, and now he is lost in the mists of time, a footnote to history. No one knows whatever…
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Mad Hatter
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society – February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street, Camden, New Jersey. The occupant of the house was the man who shot the man who shot Abraham…
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Camden Man Shot Lincoln’s Slayer
Philadelphia Inquirer – February 13, 1903 Boston Corbett, Who Killed Wilkes Booth, Remembered by Many Old Residents of the City To the minds of many of Camden’s older residents the birthday of Abraham Lincoln recalled the day’s years ago when they had within their midst Boston Corbett, the man who bore the distinction of having…
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Harper’s Weekly Excerpt
Harper’s Weekly – May 13, 1865; page 294, column A and B This is a half-page excerpt of a multi-page article about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, published in Harper’s Weekly. It includes detailed accounts of the events leading up to the assassination, and after. Sergeant Corbett, the soldier who shot [John Wilkes] Booth, belongs…
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First Lieutenant Doherty’s Report
April 29, 1865 HDQRS. DETACHMENT SIXTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1865. Lieut. Col. J. H. TAYLOR, Asst. Adjt. Gets. and Chief of Staff, Dept. of Washington. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that on Monday, April 24, 1865, I received the following order: HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, April…