Samuel B. Booth

Samuel Babcock Booth (October 29, 1883 – June 17, 1935) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.

The Right Reverend

Samuel Babcock Booth

D.D.
Bishop of Vermont
ChurchEpiscopal Church
SeeVermont
In office1929–1935
PredecessorArthur C. A. Hall
SuccessorVedder Van Dyck
Orders
OrdinationMay 28, 1911
by James Bowen Funsten
ConsecrationFebruary 17, 1925
by Arthur C. A. Hall
Personal details
BornOctober 29, 1883
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
DiedJune 17, 1935(1935-06-17) (aged 51)
Bennington, Vermont, United States
BuriedChapel of the Transfiguration, Burlington, Vermont
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsHenry Driver Booth & Mary Bourne Babcock
SpouseAnna Peck
Children7
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont (1925-1929)
Alma materHarvard University

Biography

He was born in Philadelphia to Henry Driver Booth and Mary Bourne Babcock Booth. Booth attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from Harvard College in 1906 and the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1911.[1][2] He was ordained deacon in June 1910 and priest in 1911, serving as a missionary in Idaho from 1910 to 1914. He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925. He succeeded Arthur C. A. Hall as diocesan bishop on February 26, 1930.

Booth married Anna Peck on September 6, 1910. Together, they had seven children.

Personal and family Life

He was baptized at St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough, on 24 Feb 1884.[3]

He married Anna Peck on 5 September 1910 at St. John's, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.[4] He and Anna had seven children:

  • Robert, born 3 August 1912[5]
  • Katherine, born 17 February 1916[6]
  • Mary Ann, born 21 December 1917 in Philadelphia and died 8 February 1918 in Philadelphia[7]
  • Ellen Bourne, born 2 April 1919[8]
  • Anne Curtis, born 18 May 1922 in Wrightstown, Bucks, PA and died 03 Nov 2020 in Newcastle, Lincoln, ME [9]
  • Madeline Tasker Polk, born 6 October 1924[10]
  • Samuel Babcock, born 17 March 1928 in Burlington, VT[11]

References
  1. Harvard Class of 1905: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  2. History of the Theological Seminary in Virginia and its Historical Background. New York: E. S. Gorham. 1923. p. 64.
  3. Baptismal Record of Samuel Babcock Booth. Parish Records of St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough. Philadelphia 24 February 1884.
  4. Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  5. Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  6. Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  7. Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  8. Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921. p. 42.
  9. Harvard Class of 1906: Twentieth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1926. p. 24.
  10. Harvard Class of 1906: Twentieth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1926. p. 24.
  11. Birth Record of Samuel Babcock Booth. State of Vermont Vital Records.


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