Sherman Miller Booth (September 25, 1812 – August 10, 1904) was an abolitionist, editor and politician in Wisconsin, and was instrumental in forming the Liberty Party, the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party. He became known nationally after helping instigate a jailbreak for a runaway slave in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Sherman Miller Booth (September 25, 1812 – August 10, 1904) was an abolitionist, editor and politician in Wisconsin, and was instrumental in forming the...
The ShermanBooth House is a Prairie Style house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Glencoe, IL. The house was built as the primary residence...
Development was commissioned in 1915 by Frank Lloyd Wright's attorney, ShermanBooth Jr. It is located in Glencoe, Illinois. Six houses, three poured concrete...
Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940) is an American actress and writer. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including...
Polly Sherman is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. Played by Connie Booth, she is Fawlty Towers' long-suffering waitress and hotel...
jail. Word spread of his capture, leading prominent abolitionists like ShermanBooth to galvanize popular support to free him. On March 18, 1854, Glover...
fugitive slave Joshua Glover and ShermanBooth, who led efforts that thwarted Glover's recapture. In 1859 in Ableman v. Booth, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled...
role in the Joshua Glover controversy. In 1865, at the insistence of ShermanBooth, Gillespie attempted to vote. He was denied a ballot, so he sued the...
Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793 – February 19, 1863) was an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846...
been an actress, starring with the actor Edwin Booth (brother of actor-assassin John Wilkes Booth). Sherman began his career as a child actor appearing in...
Rublee (Wisconsin State Journal), Rufus King (Milwaukee Sentinel) and ShermanBooth (Waukesha Free Democrat) encouraged the formation of a new party by...
from Illinois, whose brother Elijah was killed by a pro-slavery mob; ShermanBooth, a journalist and Liberty organizer in Wisconsin; Jane Grey Swisshelm...
early Wisconsin history—He represented abolitionist ShermanBooth in the case of Ableman v. Booth at the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in which the Wisconsin...
The Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund is an American assisted-living facility, in Englewood, New Jersey. It is operated by the Actors Fund...
incident involved some citizens of Milwaukee, under the leadership of ShermanBooth the editor of The Free Democrat. This citizen group overpowered federal...
excited with the arrest of Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper publisher ShermanBooth, who had led a mob to free Joshua Glover in defiance of the Fugitive...
marshal in an unsuccessful attempt to free Burns. Abolitionist editor ShermanBooth was arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act when he helped incite...
Hurbert; Sherman, Harold. (2004). Thoughts through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind. Hampton Roads Publishing. ISBN 1-57174-314-6 Booth, John...
returned to his owner. A mob of 5,000 people led by Milwaukee abolitionist ShermanBooth, himself a "Yankee" transplant from rural New York, sprung Glover from...
Joshua Glover in 1854, as well as the plot to free abolitionist activist ShermanBooth from federal prison in 1860. He was a part of the ill-fated "Free-Stater"...
Aristoo Vaziri, Daisy Wick, and Vincent Nigel-Murray; FBI agents Seeley Booth, Dr. Lance Sweets, and James Aubrey; and Justice Department prosecutor Caroline...
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