Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Booth, George W 1837 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

George W. Booth, farmer and stockbreeder, P. O. Gardner. Among the leading 
farmers and stock-dealers of Illinois, the gentleman whose name heads this 
article ranks second to none.  He is a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, and 
was born January 13, 1837. His parents, Moses and Myra (Hubbell) Booth, were 
natives of Connecticut, and came to Ohio at an early day, where the father 
died February, 1856, and the mother in this county in 1882.  The parents were 
blessed with three children by their union, viz., George W.; Theresa, wife of 
Henry Waters; Emma, the wife of Robert Briscoe, of Marseilles, Ill. The mother 
of our subject was the second wife of Moses Booth, he having married Sarah 
Judson, the result being several children - Truman, Moses, Samuel, Eliza, 
Laura, Sallie, et al. Moses B. was in the war of 1812, and he and wife were 
Presbyterians. George had the chance to attend the district schools in his 
younger days. At the age of fourteen, he began driving cattle, and at sixteen, 
he was engaged with F. N. Andrews, of Trumbull County, Ohio. At the age of 
twenty, he had saved some means, and invested the same in hogs and cattle, 
which proved successful. April, 1863, he took charge of a stock farm for Elias 
Trumbo, of La Salle County, Ill., with whom he remained five years, after 
which he bought 160 acres of land in Greenfield Township, this county. He 
owned this but a short time, and made several changes before he finally 
settled on his present farm in Braceville Township. Here he began to widen in 
his stock dealing, and, in 1877, he took in full partnership his son-in-law, 
Lyman Hawley, which firm name of Booth & Hawley still exists. Their herd of 
cattle now consists of the following noted families: Rose of Sharon, Pansy, 
Dulci Bella, Arabella and Seventeens, a class of the first importation from 
Europe by the Clays. They are also breeding the registered Poland-China hogs, 
which they ship to different parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio 
and Indiana. They are stocking about eight hundred acres of land. Mr. Booth 
was married, April 9, 1856, to Caroline Rainy, daughter of William and Mary 
(Taylor) Rainy, natives, the father of Ireland and the mother of Pennsylvania. 
The parents were blessed with three children - Nancy, Mary and Caroline. Here 
parents were members of the Seceder Church. Mrs. B. was born May 3, 1838, and 
her union has given her two children - Warren (deceased) and Mary, who has one 
child by her marriage with Lyman Hawley - Maud. Mr. Booth has served his 
township as Supervisor for eight years. He has also been chosen Town Treasurer 
of Schools for nine years, and other minor offices. His estimable lady is a 
member of the Baptist Church of Gardner. He votes the Republican ticket.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p106

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