George Augustus Parkhurst (1841 - 1890)

Born 18 Mar 1841 in New York, United States

Husband of Clara A (Morell) Parkhurst — married 31 Jan 1885 in District of Columbia, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Jul 1890 at age 49 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

George Parkhurst is Notable.

George A. Parkhurst was born 18 Mar 1841, in New York. We know little about his childhood, but he may have been the nine-year-old George A. Parkhurst, who in 1880, along with his younger brother Benjamin (age 8), was living in the home of John and Eliza Hines in Bergren, New Jersey. It's possible that these were George's grandparents.

George was an American stage actor who had received some training for the stage from the actor Edwin Forrest. On the night of 14 Apr 1865, as a member of the stock company at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., George was performing in a production of Our American Cousin, when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

Following the assassination, George withdrew from acting took a job as a postal clerk in Washington, DC. By the 1880s, however, he apparently felt secure enough to return to the stage and in 1888 found success playing Hobbs in the original American productions of Little Lord Fauntleroy. George also toured for several seasons with actress Maggie Mitchell's company in the play Fanchon, the Cricket. He also received for his performance as Colonel Buzzy in a theatrical production of Amélie Rives' The Quick or the Dead.

Sources

• 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
  The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: 452; Page: 244b; Line Number: 10
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #4394645.

• 1870 Census: "1870 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1870; Census Place: Washington Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll: M593_123; Page: 218A
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7163 #2776631.

• 1880 Census: "1880 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1880; Census Place: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia; Roll: 123; Page: 82b; Enumeration District: 047
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6742 #49195691.

• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WD4-CPD: 3 June 2020), George Augustus Parkhurst, 2 Jul 1890; citing Death, Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,686.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #37569365

See Also

• Bogar, Thomas A. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination (Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2013).

• The Wikitree Our American Cousin Free Space Page

• Wikipedia: George A. Parkhurst
• Wikidata: Item Q5535992, en:Wikipedia