BOOTH BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BOOTH, Royal W. - b: 1895 Cedar Springs, MI
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 678
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

Royal W. Booth - The Booth Hatchery, located at 807 North Fourth Street, Clinton, 
Missouri, is a very interesting and instructive business, showing what one can do 
with the initiative and ability of a business man in the poultry business. Mr. 
Booth opened his chicken hatchery in 1914 and he has an ever increasing demand 
for his small hatched chickens of various breeds, among which are the well-
known White Leghorns, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and Buff Orpingtons. Mr. 
Booth has an incubator hatching capacity of 15,000 chickens. One building holds 
10,000 and the other 5,000 in various small buildings, which has lately been 
replaced by a new building with better facilities for handling and caring for the 
young chicks. In the four years of his work Mr. Booth has shipped chickens all 
over the United States, his chickens being on sale from January to November. He 
specializes in the White Leghorn hens for their laying qualities and meat. In 
connection with his work of raising small chicks, Mr. Booth has also the agency 
for the Buckeye and Cyphers incubators. He deals extensively in eggs also. R. W. 
Booth was born at Cedar Springs, Michigan, in 1895 and is the son of F. D. and Ida 
J. (Gates) Booth, now residing at Clinton, Missouri. In 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Booth 
with their family moved to a farm near Clinton, where they remained until 1911, 
when they located in Clinton and where they are now making their home. They are 
the parents of four children: Rex, Clinton; Royal W., with whom this sketch deals; 
Eden and Mary E., at home with their parents. Royal W. Booth received his 
education in the public schools of Clinton and took a course of agriculture in his 
high school work, thus interesting him in his present work. He read every 
available bulletin on the subject and soon after leaving school he had his chicken 
hatchery going. The business is likely to be a very large one in extent as the 
years roll by as it has increased in leaps and bounds the past year. On July 15, 
1918, Mr. Booth became a private soldier in the National Army and is now in 
training at Camp McArthur, Texas. His brother, Eden, immediately took charge of 
the business in his stead and is conducting it successfully.

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