Brief Life History of Henry David
When Henry David Booth was born on 15 March 1857, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, David H Booth, was 39 and his mother, Anna Eliza Gould, was 34. He married Florence Wilhemina Morris about 1884, in Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870. He died on 3 July 1946, in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 89.
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- David H Booth in household of David Booth, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry in entry for Ralph Henry Booth and Frances Susan Blaner, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
- Henry D Booth in household of David Booth, "United States Census, 1870"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Land in Groton Given to US Navy for Navy Station
In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (northern): topographic or occupational name from Middle English bothe (Old Danish bōth) ‘temporary shelter, such as a covered market stall or a cattle-herdsman's hut’. The latter sense was predominant in the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where there were many cattle farms or vaccaries, and whose subdivisions were known as ‘booths’. The principal meaning of the surname there was therefore probably ‘cattle herdsman’, ‘man in charge of a vaccary’, and thus identical with Boothman . Elsewhere it may have denoted a shopkeeper who owned a temporary market stall, but no evidence has been found to confirm this use of the surname. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).
History: Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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