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There is no evidence to suggest there was any close or distant family connection between William Booth and John Wilkes Booth. The founder of the Salvation Army was born on 10 April 1829 in Sneinton, Nottingham, England. The assassin of President Lincoln was born in 1839 in America.

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Booth's parents, the noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, came to the United States from England in June 1821.

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they was second cousins

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