Brief Life History of James Milton
When James Milton Booth was born on 21 May 1888, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, John Edge Booth, was 40 and his mother, Delia Ina Winters, was 34. He married Cora Ethel Lewis on 19 October 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1910 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 6 January 1939, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- James Milton Booth, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- James Milton Booth, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- James Milton Booth, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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