Boston Corbett

[Craig Hipkins]

Here is an article published in the Marion Daily Star on 18 September 1879. It is a good example of some writer publishing erroneous information as fact. Where the information came from cannot be ascertained but it probably came from the anonymous authors imagination.

Boston Corbett who shot John Wilkes Booth, is now a Nevada miner, Here is his record up to date: 1865, a soldier; 1866, a Lynn shoemaker; 1867, bookbinder and newsdealer in Boston; 1868, at work in Albany; 1869, a Utica printer; 1870, a salt workman in Syracuse; 1871, an Erie canal boatman; 1872, a laborer in buffalo; 1873, grocer clerk in Pittsburgh; 1874-75 a hatter in Cleveland; 1876 drayman in Chicago; 1877, book peddler in Omaha; 1878, a miner in Nevada.