Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Booth Sr. was born on 30 April 1889, in Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Walter Judson Booth, was 31 and his mother, Bessie A Johnson, was 33. He married Margaret Augusta Olsen about 1914, in Roxbury, Delaware, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 2 December 1956, in Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Center Cemetery, Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- George Booth in household of Walt Booth, "United States Census, 1920"
- George Walter, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- George Washington Booth, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
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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.
1902
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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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