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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the pilot boat, see <a href="Edwin_Forrest_(pilot_boat)" title="Edwin Forrest (pilot boat)">Edwin Forrest (pilot boat)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Edwin Forrest</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="Daguerreotype" title="Daguerreotype">Daguerreotype</a> of Forrest by <a href="Mathew_Brady" title="Mathew Brady">Mathew Brady</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1806-03-09</span>)</span>March 9, 1806<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 12, 1872<span style="display:none">(1872-12-12)</span> (aged 66)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Actor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">

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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="Catherine_Norton_Sinclair" title="Catherine Norton Sinclair">Catherine Norton Sinclair</a></div>

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<p><b>Edwin Forrest</b> (March 9, 1806 – December 12, 1872) was a nineteenth-century American <a href="Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespearean</a> actor. His feud with the British actor <a href="William_Macready" title="William Macready">William Macready</a> was the cause of the deadly <a href="Astor_Place_Riot" title="Astor Place Riot">Astor Place Riot</a> of 1849.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div>

<p>Forrest was born in <a href="Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, the son of Rebecca (<i>née</i> Lauman) and William Forrest. His father, a <a href="Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a> merchandise peddler, moved from <a href="Dumfriesshire" title="Dumfriesshire">Dumfriesshire</a> to <a href="Trenton%2C_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton, New Jersey</a> in 1791. His mother was a member of an affluent <a href="German_Americans" title="German Americans">German-American</a> family. A business setback led William to relocate to Philadelphia, where he married Rebecca and was able to secure a position with a local branch of the <a href="First_Bank_of_the_United_States" title="First Bank of the United States">United States Bank</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Forrest_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forrest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Edwin_Forrest_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edwin_Forrest-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As boys, Forrest and his brother William joined a local <a href="Amateur_theatre" title="Amateur theatre">juvenile thespian club</a> and participated in theatrical performances staged in a sparsely decorated woodshed.

</p><p>At the age of 11, Forrest made his first appearance on the legitimate stage at Philadelphia's South Street Theatre, playing the female role Rosalia de Borgia in the John D. Turnbull melodrama <i>Rudolph: or, The Robbers of Calabria</i>. After Forrest's father died in 1819, he attempted to apprentice with a printer, a cooper, and finally a ship chandler. When attending a lecture in early 1820, he volunteered to participate in an experiment on the effects of <a href="Nitrous_oxide" title="Nitrous oxide">nitrous oxide</a>. While under the influence of the gas, he broke into a <a href="Soliloquy" title="Soliloquy">soliloquy</a> from <a href="William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s <a href="Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)"><i>Richard III</i></a> that impressed eminent Philadelphia lawyer John Swift so much that Swift arranged an audition at the <a href="Walnut_Street_Theatre" title="Walnut Street Theatre">Walnut Street Theatre</a>; this led to Forrest's formal stage debut on November 27, 1820, as Young Norval in <a href="John_Home" title="John Home">John Home</a>'s <a href="Douglas_(play)" title="Douglas (play)"><i>Douglas</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Forrest_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forrest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Edwin_Forrest_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edwin_Forrest-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_acting_career">Early acting career</h2></div>

<p>The theatres of New York and Philadelphia were already crowded with trained and successful actors, mostly the offspring of well-known British theatrical families or at least with British training. Few American actors were able to make much headway in these theaters, whose managers were highly skeptical of the quality of local talent.

</p><p>Forrest therefore accepted an offer from Joshua Collins and William Jones, who owned theatres in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Lexington, and were scouting Philadelphia for actors who were willing to face the rigors of performing in the new cities along the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys. His tour through a rough country—with the inconveniences of long distances, the necessity of presenting his plays in rude halls, insufficient support, and poor scenery—was not altogether successful, but the discipline to mind and body was felt in all his subsequent career.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1824 he travelled from Louisville down to New Orleans, where he had been invited to join the company of the American Theatre, under the management of William Caldwell. There he began to act in a higher quality of production - though usually in roles secondary to Caldwell - and began to attract favorable responses from New Orleans audiences. However, Forrest vied with his employer for the affections of the leading actress of the company, Jane Placide. In a fury of jealousy, he quit the company and spent two months living in the Louisiana wilderness. Later Forrest would claim he spent much of this time in the company of a Choctaw Indian chief named Push-ma-ta-ha, though recent scholarship has come to question much of his account. By 1825 he was back in Philadelphia, and then went north to act with the Pearl Street Theatre in Albany, New York, where he was able to act with, and learn from, such eminent actors as William Conway and Edmund Kean.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_York_success">New York success</h2></div>

<p>In 1826, he had a great success at the <a href="Bowery_Theatre" title="Bowery Theatre">Bowery Theatre</a> in New York City as <a href="Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a>. The management employed him at a salary far below his worth, and he was at once offered increased payment at another theatre; but he refused to break his word, and carried out the contract to his own detriment. This strict sense of honor was characteristic of him throughout his career.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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His New York success was repeated in every city he visited. British writer <a href="Thomas_Hamilton_(writer)" title="Thomas Hamilton (writer)">Thomas Hamilton</a> marveled at, and dissented from, the acclaim that Forrest enjoyed at that time:</p><blockquote><p>He is a coarse and vulgar actor, without grace, without dignity, with little flexibility of feature, and utterly common-place in his conceptions of character. There is certainly some energy about him, but this is sadly given to degenerate into rant. The audience, however, were enraptured. Every increase of voice in the actor was followed by louder thunders from box, pit, and gallery, till it sometimes became matter of serious calculation, how much longer one's tympanum could stand the crash.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>In 1829 Forrest was featured as Metamora in the play <i><a href="Metamora%3B_or%2C_The_Last_of_the_Wampanoags" title="Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags">Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags</a></i> by <a href="John_Augustus_Stone" title="John Augustus Stone">John Augustus Stone</a>. After a few years of profitable labor, during which he had encouraged native talent by liberal offers for new American plays, he went to Europe for rest and travel and larger observation, and was received with much courtesy by actors and scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>He returned to Philadelphia in 1831, and played there and in New York and elsewhere with triumphant success until September 1836, when he sailed for England, this time professionally, and made his first appearance at <a href="Drury_Lane" title="Drury Lane">Drury Lane</a> as Spartacus in <i><a href="The_Gladiator_(1831_play)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gladiator (1831 play)">The Gladiator</a></i> in 1836. The play was not a success, although his own role was noted favorably. During a season of ten months he performed in that historic theatre the parts of Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. His social triumphs were as great as were his professional; he was entertained by <a href="William_Macready" title="William Macready">William Macready</a> and <a href="Charles_Kemble" title="Charles Kemble">Charles Kemble</a>, and at the end of the season was complimented by a dinner at the <a href="Garrick_Club" title="Garrick Club">Garrick Club</a>, presided over by <a href="Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>During this engagement he married, in June 1837, Miss <a href="Catherine_Norton_Sinclair" title="Catherine Norton Sinclair">Catherine Norton Sinclair</a>, daughter of John Sinclair, a popular English singer. He returned to Philadelphia in November of the same year and began an engagement. His wife made a deep impression wherever she was presented, and it was argued that domestic happiness would be the fitting crown of his public career. But these predictions were disappointed.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playwriting_contest">Playwriting contest</h2></div>

<p>Edwin Forrest began a playwriting contest from 1828 to 1847. The only rule the plays had to follow was that the lead Character had to fit Forrest and the plays typically followed American themes. The first play to win the contest was <i>Metamora</i> by John Augustus Stone in 1828. The winner the following year was <i>The Gladiator</i> by <a href="Robert_Montgomery_Bird" title="Robert Montgomery Bird">Robert Montgomery Bird</a>. Other winning titles include Richard Penn Smith's <i>Caius Marcus</i>; two other plays by Robert Montgomery Bird: <i>Oralloosa</i> and <i>The Broker of Bogota</i>; and Robert T. Conrad's <i>Jack Cade</i>. Forrest was now known as a great Shakespearean actor as well as a supporter of emerging American playwrights. However, though his contest did raise the general reputation of American playwrights, it did little to help get the winners' plays produced elsewhere. <i>Metamora</i>, <i>The Gladiator</i>, and <i>Jack Cade</i> so well suited Forrest's strengths as a performer, showing off his strong voice and well-developed physique, that they remained in Forrest's personal repertory for the rest of his career.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rivalry_with_Macready">Rivalry with Macready</h2></div>

<p>Forrest visited London a second time in 1845, accompanied by his wife, who was welcomed in the intellectual circles of English and Scottish society. He acted at the <a href="Princess's_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess's Theatre">Princess's Theatre</a> in London. He met with great success in Virginius and other parts, but when he attempted to personate <a href="Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a>, a character unsuited to his physique and style of acting, the performance was hissed by the audience. Forrest attributed the hissing to the professional jealousy and machinations of Macready, although that artist had been kind and helpful to him when he first came before London audiences.

</p><p>A few weeks later, when Macready was playing Hamlet in <a href="Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, Forrest stood up in a private box and hissed the English actor. This act evoked reproaches from the British press and destroyed the respect in which he had been held by the public. A letter by Forrest printed in <i><a href="The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> aggravated the offence. The incident was fatal to his popularity in <a href="United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Britain</a>. His jealousy of Macready resulted in the <a href="Astor_Place_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="Astor Place riot">Astor Place riot</a> in May 1849. The public feud had exacerbated rifts in New York City social and political life. An estimated 10,000 people filled the streets outside the theater where Macready was playing <a href="Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a>, fighting running battles with authorities and vainly trying to set fire to the Astor Opera House. Dozens of rioters were killed, and around 250 civilians, policemen and soldiers were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Divorce">Divorce</h2></div>

<p>In 1850, Forrest and his wife sought divorce, after Forrest's affair with actress <a href="Josephine_Clifton" title="Josephine Clifton">Josephine Clifton</a>; he claimed that he had found a <a href="Love_letter" title="Love letter">love letter</a> to his wife from fellow actor <a href="George_W._Jamieson" title="George W. Jamieson">George W. Jamieson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Forrest and Catherine separated in April 1849 and he moved to Philadelphia where he filed for divorce in February 1850, though the Pennsylvania legislature denied his divorce application.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the advice of <a href="Parke_Godwin_(journalist)" title="Parke Godwin (journalist)">Parke Godwin</a>, Catherine hired <a href="Charles_O'Conor_(American_politician)" title="Charles O'Conor (American politician)">Charles O'Conor</a> as her lawyer.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The divorce became a <i><a href="Cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre" title="Cause célèbre">cause célèbre</a></i> and the well-known writer <a href="Nathaniel_Parker_Willis" title="Nathaniel Parker Willis">Nathaniel Parker Willis</a> was caught in the middle. Willis defended Catherine, who maintained her innocence, in his magazine <i><a href="Town_%26_Country_(magazine)" title="Town & Country (magazine)">Home Journal</a></i> and suggested that Forrest was merely jealous of her intellectual superiority.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 17, 1850, shortly after Forrest had filed for divorce in the New York Supreme Court,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Forrest beat Willis with a <a href="Gutta-percha" title="Gutta-percha">gutta-percha</a> <a href="Whip" title="Whip">whip</a> in New York's <a href="Washington_Square_Park%2C_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Square Park, New York">Washington Square</a>, shouting "this man is the seducer of my wife".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Willis, who was recovering from a <a href="Rheumatic_fever" title="Rheumatic fever">rheumatic fever</a> at the time, was unable to fight back.<sup id="cite_ref-Beers313_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beers313-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Willis's own wife soon received an anonymous letter suggesting that Willis was, in fact, involved with Forrest's wife.<sup id="cite_ref-Yellin112_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yellin112-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Willis later sued Forrest for assault and, by March 1852, was awarded $2,500 plus court costs.<sup id="cite_ref-Beers313_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beers313-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the divorce case, Charles O'Conor was the counsel for Catherine, the defendant, with John Van Buren representing Edwin. Throughout the Forrest divorce case, which lasted six weeks, several witnesses made additional claims that Catherine Forrest and Nathaniel Parker Willis were having an affair, including a waiter who claimed he had seen the couple "lying on each other".<sup id="cite_ref-Yellin112_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yellin112-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the press reported, "thousands and thousands of the anxious public" awaited the court's verdict; ultimately, the court sided with Catherine Forrest and Willis's name was cleared.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Conor won a national reputation by winning the case, and secured a liberal alimony for Catherine.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The whole affair hurt Forrest's reputation and soured his temper.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_stage_career">Later stage career</h2></div>

<p>In 1853, he played Macbeth, with a strong cast and fine scenery, at the <a href="Old_Broadway_Theatre" title="Old Broadway Theatre">Broadway Theatre</a> for four weeks—an unprecedented run at that date. He became interested in politics, being spoken of as a candidate for congress. In 1860, he appeared at <a href="Niblo's_Garden" title="Niblo's Garden">Niblo's Garden</a>, New York, as Hamlet, and played the most successful engagement of his life. Some news reports at that time said he had been retired from acting for several years, although there are also numerous newspapers accounts of his performances in different cities between 1853 and 1860. Hereditary gout developed itself in a malignant form in 1865, during an engagement at the <a href="Holliday_Street_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Holliday Street Theatre">Holliday Street Theatre</a> in <a href="Baltimore%2C_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore, Maryland">Baltimore, Maryland</a> the <a href="Sciatic_nerve" title="Sciatic nerve">sciatic nerve</a> was paralyzed, and he never regained the use of his hand or his steady gait. His California tour in 1866 was a failure. He played his last New York engagement in February 1871, the plays being <i><a href="Richelieu_(play)" title="Richelieu (play)">Richelieu</a></i> and <i>King Lear</i>. The weather was cold, and the houses empty.

</p><p>In October 1871, Forrest commenced his last annual tour, starting at the Walnut Theater in his home town of Philadelphia. He passed through Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans, LA; Galveston, TX; Nashville, TN; Kansas City, MO; Leavenworth, KS; St. Louis, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Detroit, MI; Buffalo, NY; and by late February the Opera House in Rochester, NY; February 27 through March 1. From Rochester he traveled on to Boston, MA.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>On the night of March 25, 1872, he appeared in <a href="Boston%2C_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a> at the <a href="Globe_Theatre%2C_Boston_(1871)" class="mw-redirect" title="Globe Theatre, Boston (1871)">Globe Theatre</a>, as Lear, played this part six times, and was announced for Richelieu and Virginius, but on the intervening Sunday he caught cold. He struggled through the role of Richelieu on Monday night, and rare bursts of eloquence lighted the gloom, but he labored piteously against the disease which was fast conquering him. Being offered stimulants, he signed them away, with the words, "If I die, I will still be my royal self." This was his last appearance as an actor. He eventually recovered from the severe attack of pneumonia. The craving for public applause, which was his only happiness, induced him to give readings from Shakespeare in several large cities. The scheme failed, and was abandoned, to his deep mortification.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>A stroke of paralysis ended his life suddenly and without pain. His servant found him dead, alone, and apparently asleep, in his home in Philadelphia December 12, 1872. His body was interred in Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Philadelphia.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large sums that he had earned on the stage were judiciously and fortunately invested, and resulted in his amassing a large fortune. He had purchased, about 1850, a site on the banks of the <a href="Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson</a>, on which he erected a castellated structure. This estate, which he named <a href="Fonthill_Castle_and_the_Administration_Building_of_the_College_of_Mount_St._Vincent" title="Fonthill Castle and the Administration Building of the College of Mount St. Vincent">Fonthill</a>, he afterward sold at a large advance for a convent, which later became the <a href="College_of_Mount_Saint_Vincent" class="mw-redirect" title="College of Mount Saint Vincent">College of Mount Saint Vincent</a>. In 1855 he purchased his mansion in Philadelphia, to which he retired after his temporary abandonment of the stage. There he collected the largest dramatic library in the United States. By avoiding New York and by legal evasions he succeeded in escaping the payment of alimony to his wife, but left his estate heavily in her debt.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropic_efforts">Philanthropic efforts</h2></div>

<p>His love of the theatre was unbounded, and he is one of the few whose memory survives to this day, for he used his considerable accumulated wealth to support his fellow actors.

</p><p>This began in 1865, the year of Lincoln's assassination by the actor <a href="John_Wilkes_Booth" title="John Wilkes Booth">John Wilkes Booth</a>, a time when the public held those in the acting profession in low regard, if not contempt. He sheltered actors at his Summer home near Philadelphia and, in 1876, four years after his death at the age of 66, his will instructed that there should be formed the Forrest Home for retired actors in Philadelphia, which was to last for over one hundred years before being folded into the much larger <a href="Actors'_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Actors' Fund">Actors Fund</a> facility in <a href="Englewood%2C_New_Jersey" title="Englewood, New Jersey">Englewood, New Jersey</a>. There his name lives on, in the Edwin Forrest Wing. His will also instructed that a two thousand dollars bequest be provided to Actors' Order of Friendship, whose New York City Lodge was named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In the 1920s, architect <a href="Herbert_J._Krapp" title="Herbert J. Krapp">Herbert J. Krapp</a> was chosen to design two new theatres, one in New York City and the other in Philadelphia. Both were initially named the Forrest Theatre in honor of Forrest and his contributions to the theatre world. While the Philadelphia location is still called the <a href="Forrest_Theatre" title="Forrest Theatre">Forrest Theatre</a>, the building in New York has changed names over the years and is currently known as the <a href="Eugene_O'Neill_Theatre" title="Eugene O'Neill Theatre">Eugene O'Neill Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Lawrence_Barrett" title="Lawrence Barrett">Lawrence Barrett</a>'s <i>Edwin Forrest</i> (Boston, 1881)</li>

<li><a href="Edwin_Forrest_House" title="Edwin Forrest House">Edwin Forrest House</a></li>

<li><a href="Edwin_Forrest_School" title="Edwin Forrest School">Edwin Forrest School</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFRees1874" class="citation book cs1">Rees, James (1874). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lifeofedwinforr00rees"><i>The life of Edwin Forrest: With Reminiscences and Personal Recollections</i></a>. T. B. Peterson. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lifeofedwinforr00rees/page/381">381</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 13,</span> 2012</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Edwin_Forrest-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Edwin_Forrest_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Edwin_Forrest_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFBarrettForrest1881" class="citation book cs1">Barrett, Lawrence; Forrest, Edwin (1881). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/edwinforrest00barriala"><i>Edwin Forrest</i></a>. J.R. Osgood<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 13,</span> 2012</span>. <q>edwin forrest barrett.</q></cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1">"Forrest, Edwin". <i>The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV</i>. 1904. pp. <span class="nowrap">152–</span>3.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-appletons-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-appletons_4-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFBarrett1900" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="Lawrence_Barrett" title="Lawrence Barrett">Barrett, Lawrence</a> (1900). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Forrest, Edwin"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Forrest,_Edwin">"Forrest, Edwin" </a></span>. In <a href="James_Grant_Wilson" title="James Grant Wilson">Wilson, J. G.</a>; <a href="John_Fiske_(philosopher)" title="John Fiske (philosopher)">Fiske, J.</a> (eds.). <i><a href="Appletons'_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography" title="Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography">Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography</a></i>. New York: D. Appleton.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hamilton, Thomas, <i>Men and Manners in America</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/menmannersinamer00hamiiala/menmannersinamer00hamiiala/page/35/mode/1up?view=theater">p.35</a> (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833) (retrieved June 16, 2024).</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBaker2001">Baker 2001</a>, p. 116</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeers1913">Beers 1913</a>, p. 309</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBaker2001">Baker 2001</a>, p. 118</span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeers1913">Beers 1913</a>, p. 311</span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeers1913">Beers 1913</a>, p. 312</span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBaker2001">Baker 2001</a>, p. 115</span>

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<li id="cite_note-Beers313-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Beers313_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Beers313_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeers1913">Beers 1913</a>, p. 313</span>

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<li id="cite_note-Yellin112-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Yellin112_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yellin112_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYellin2004">Yellin 2004</a>, p. 112</span>

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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYellin2004">Yellin 2004</a>, p. 113</span>

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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Philadelphia Inquirer October 16, 1871; Portsmouth, Ohio, Daily Times October 28, 1871; Cincinnati Enquirer September 11, 1871; New Orleans Times Democrat November 24, 1871; Galveston Daily News August 12, 1871; Nashville Union and American December 23, 1871; New Orleans Times Democrat, December 31, 1871, Atchinson, Kansas, Daily Champion December 30, 1871; Atlanta Constitution January 19, 1872; Pittsburgh Commercial, January 29, 1872; Detroit Free Press April 2, 1872; Detroit Free Press June 2, 1872; Washington, DC National Republican February 24, 1872; Rochester Democrat & Chronicle February 26, 1872; Detroit Free Press March 24, 1872; Rochester Democrat & Chronicle April 4, 1872, Baltimore Sun June 4, 1872</span>

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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/">"Philadelphia Area Archives"</a>. <i>Findingaids.library.upenn.edu</i>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-daily-herald-will-of-edwin-fore/125549067/">"The Edwin Forrest Home"</a>. <i>New York Daily Herald</i>. December 18, 1872. p. 8<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 29,</span> 2023</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shubertorganization.com/theatres/forrest_theatre_philly.asp">"The Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140827000746/http://www.shubertorganization.com/theatres/forrest_theatre_philly.asp">Archived</a> August 27, 2014, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Shubert Organization. Retrieved March 30, 2009.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eugene-oneill-theater.com/">"History"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090208032441/http://www.eugene-oneill-theater.com/">Archived</a> February 8, 2009, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Retrieved March 30, 2009.</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBaker2001" class="citation book cs1">Baker, Thomas N. (2001). <i>Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame</i>. New York: Oxford University Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-19-512073-8</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBeers1913" class="citation book cs1">Beers, Henry A. (1913). <i>Nathaniel Parker Willis</i>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFMoody1960" class="citation book cs1">Moody, Richard (1960). <i>Edwin Forrest: First Star of the American Stage</i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFYellin2004" class="citation book cs1">Yellin, Jean Fagan (2004). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/harrietjacobslif00yell"><i>Harriet Jacobs: A Life</i></a></span>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basic Civitas Books. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-465-09288-8</bdi>.</cite></li></ul>

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<div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has the text of the <a href="Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">1911 <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i></a> article "<span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Forrest,_Edwin" class="extiw external" title="wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Forrest, Edwin">Forrest, Edwin</a></span>".</div></div>

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<p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"></span> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edwin_Forrest" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:Edwin Forrest">Edwin Forrest</a> at Wikimedia Commons

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<ul><li>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hsp.org/files/findingaid3068forrest.pdf">Edwin Forrest Home Records</a>, documenting the entire institutional history of the Edwin Forrest Home, are available for research use at the <a href="Historical_Society_of_Pennsylvania" title="Historical Society of Pennsylvania">Historical Society of Pennsylvania</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/354">Edwin Forrest</a> at <a href="Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.josephhaworth.com/edwin_forrest.htm">Edwin Forrest biography and photo gallery</a></li>

<li>Finding aid to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/ead/upenn_rbml_MsColl5">Edwin Forrest collection</a> at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.library.upenn.edu/">University of Pennsylvania Libraries</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01434">Theater Arts Manuscripts:</a> An Inventory of the Collection at the <a href="Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a></li></ul>

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