Research Catalog

Title

Booths in history : their roots and lives, encounters, and achievements / by John Nicholls Booth.

Author

Booth, John Nicholls, 1912-2009

Publication

Los Alamitos, Calif. : Ridgeway Press, 1982.

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Description

231 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Thomas Booth (1663-1736) who married Mary Cooke/Cook immigrated from Lancashire, England to Gloucester County, Virginia about 1690, while Robert Booth had immigrated in 1607. Descendants and relatives remained in England, some settled in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and Canada as well as throughout the United States.

Subject

• Booth family
• British Americans > United States > Genealogy
• British > Canada > Genealogy
• British > England > Genealogy

Genre/Form

Genealogy

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: 219-221.

Contents

In gratitude -- Unexpected discoveries -- The rise of the Booths -- The ancestral line of many Americans -- Spreading around the world -- Making English history -- 18th Century : actor to forger -- Booths make cannon and a kingdom -- Exploration aided by Booth's gin -- Railways and vacuum cleaners -- Booth's shadow falls over Abraham Lincoln -- The greatest Booth of them all -- Amazon shipping and the Lusitania sinking -- Booth fisheries and Canada's lumber tycoon -- 20th Century : newspapers, schools, cars -- The world of cinema, art and cartoons -- Religion and science -- Business leaders and military brass -- Writers, novelists, historians and poets -- Who's who wrap-up -- A self-conscious pedigree -- Pioneers in the Birmingham jewelry trade -- The jeweler marries the gunmaker's daughter --- Soldier-minister-screen writer-radio artist -- We who are tomorrow's ancestors -- The Canadian branch looks forward -- Insights to build upon.

ISBN

• 0943230012 (pbk.)
• 0943230004 (hard)

LCCN

^^^82005421^

OCLC

• 8451150
• SCSB-10579973

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library