BOOTH, JOHN RUDOLPHUS

. When the Civil War began, Lonecloud’s father joined the Union army. As one of the volunteers who tracked and captured John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, he went to New York in 1866 to collect

studying with Tomasso and Alessandro Salvini and the Shakespearean actor John A. Lane. During the 1891–92 season he accompanied actress Hortense Barbe-Loret, known as Mme Rhéa, on her tours. He shared

. 1886 of the much larger Canada Atlantic Railway, controlled by timber magnate John Rudolphus Booth

, Upper Canada, daughter of John Machar* and Margaret Sim; d

 John’s and found work as a clerk in a shipping house. In addition to helping other clerks and shopmen get shorter work hours and organizing acting classes and plays, he began treating stammerers, using his