Edwin Booth, assassin John Wilkes Booth’s brother, saved the life of this person’s son.
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
George McClellan
William Sherman
Abraham Lincoln. While boarding a train in Jersey City, Robert Todd Lincoln accidentally slipped off the platform and slid between the railcar and trestle, unable to pull himself up back up. In an odd twist of fate, Edwin Booth pulled the younger Lincoln to safety, two years before President Lincoln was assassinated by Edwin’s brother John.