Brief Life History of Roscoe G
When Roscoe G Booth was born on 7 November 1914, in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States, his father, John Albert Booth Jr, was 27 and his mother, Martha Pinnock Hunter, was 29. He married Afton Jeanne Gurr on 29 September 1943, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. He lived in Udah, Keana, Nasarawa, Nigeria in 1949 and South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 3 October 2000, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Roscoe G Booth, "United States 1950 Census"
- Roscoe G Booth, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Roscoe G. Booth, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch
The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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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