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Steve · (This post was last modified: 07-29-2019 07:13 PM by Steve.)

Does anybody know if it was either Joseph or John Wilkes who accompanied their mother, along with the new married couple during the honeymoon of Edwin and his new bride, Mary Devlin at Niagara Falls during the summer of 1860?

In July 1860 - Sept. 1860, the following notice about Edwin Booth's honeymoon in Niagara Falls was reprinted over and over in several newspapers. Including this one from page 4 of the August 20, 1860 issue of The Baltimore Sun:

The brother who accompanied Edwin, his mother, and his wife is never named in the short blurbs. It can't be Junius Jr. I know John Wilkes Booth was at the wedding and from newspaper accounts I think he arrived in Baltimore around July 24th, but I don't know for sure where he was after Edwin's wedding because there's a gap in Art Loux's book from July 9th until JWB's performance in Montgomery on Sept. 12th. So I don't know where JWB was in August.

I know that Joseph was in medical school in South Carolina in 1860 but I don't know enough of his timeline to know if excludes him from being in Niagara Falls or not.