Sherman Miller Booth, a leading abolitionist in Wisconsin, died on this date in 1904. He moved to Wisconsin in 1848 where he published a newspaper, the "American Freeman," for the Liberty Party. The paper's name was changed to the "Wisconsin Freeman" and then to the "Free Democrat," being published until 1859. It was because of Booth's urging that a mob broke into the Milwaukee jail in 1854 freeing runaway slave Joshua Glover. Booth was at the center of a court battle between the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Glover incident, resulting in Booth being jailed several times and being fined. Booth was pardoned by President James Buchanan the day before Lincoln's inauguration.