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A portrait of Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, who was the Union Army soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett, who homesteaded near Concordia, Kansas in the late 1870s, was hired as a doorkeeper for the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. On February 15, 1887, while performing his doorkeeper duties, Corbett pulled a pistol and unofficially adjourned the House. He was disarmed by local police, declared insane, and committed to the State Insane Asylum in Topeka. He escaped a year later.
Date: 1865
Item Number: 239
Call Number: B Corbett, Boston *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 239
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869 - 1865
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Corbett, Boston, b. 1832
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Photographs
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/239
