Brief Life History of John Edge
When John Edge Booth was born on 29 June 1847, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Thornton Booth, was 25 and his mother, Elsie Edge, was 21. He married Maria Josephine Harvey on 1 October 1873, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1884 and lived in Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 28 March 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- John Booth in household of Richd T Booth, "United States Census, 1860"
- John Edge Booth and Delia Ina Winters, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- John Edge Booth, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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