George A. Parkhurst

George A. Parkhurst , was an American stage actor who was one of the last surviving members of the company of actors present on the night of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln during their performance of Our American Cousin. Late in his life Parkhurst created the role of Hobbs in the 1888 American debut of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

George A. Parkhurst was born in New York State and may have been raised in Bergen, New Jersey with his brother Benjamin. Parkhurst received some training for the stage from the actor Edwin Forrest. Eventually though, as a husband and father, he chose for the time to stay with his job as a postal clerk at the Nations Capitol. By the 1880s he apparently felt secure enough to become more active on stage and later found success playing Hobbs in the original American productions of Little Lord Fauntleroy. During this time Parkhurst had toured for several seasons with actress Maggie Mitchells company in the play Fanchon, the Cricket, an adaptation of George Sands La Petite Fadette by August Waldauer, and received critical acclaim for the role he was most proud of, Colonel Buzzy in a theatrical production of Amlie Rives The Quick or the Dead.

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