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Born 1832, Bourbon county
From History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military rec (1881), Portrait and biographical record of Lafayette and Saline counties, Missouri (1893)
CHRISTOPHER C. BOOTH, P. O., Miami. Mr. Booth, one of the fine stock breeders of Saline, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, December 8, 1832. While he was quite young his parents moved to Adams county, Illinois, where he was raised on a farm, and finished his education at Bethany College. In the spring of 1866 he came to this county, and located on the Walnut Grove stock farm, three miles southeast of Miami, where he still lives. The farm consists of 450 acres of land admirably adapted to grain, grass, and stock-raising. Mr. Booth keeps himself well posted on all matters interesting to farmers, and takes great interest in the cultivation of himself and family, and in the development of the county generally, and his own farm and stock especially. He has on hand a number of high-grade cattle and Berkshire hogs. He is the owner of the noted trotting stallion, Boone Chief, one of the best bred harness horses in the state. In 1876 this horse took the premium in the 3-year old harness ring, at the St. Louis fair, and again in the 4-year old ring, in 1877, competing with twenty-four others. He is of the Membrino and Edwin Forrest families. Mr. H. is also proprietor of Lucille, Glencoe Belle, and Alice Hutchinson, of the Membrino family, and of quite a number of high-grade horses. He has also a flock of 350 full-blood Merino sheep, many of them registered. August 18, 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Ann M. Hancock, daughter of John and Harriet Hancock, and to this union have been bom eight children: William S., Henry S., George E., Robert E., Ella F., Anna J., and John, living, and one daughter, dead. The Booth family emigrated from England to Maryland before the Revolution. The grandfather of William moved to Virginia, and then to Bedford county, Kentucky, where Stephen Booth, his father, was raised.
As printed in History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military rec (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
HRISTOPHER C. BOOTH, one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of Saline County, resides on his farm situated in township 50. He is the owner of a well-improved farm, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable and arable land, situated only a short distance from Marshall. For many years he has made a specialty of breeding fine Merino sheep and now has a number of line animals of the Shropshire grade. Though formerly interested in standardbred horses, he does not at present own very many, but nevertheless has several of the Wilkes and Electioneer breeds.
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1848 entered Bethany (W. Ya.) College, where lie remained for two years, and there had the privilege of hearing the noted Christian preacher, Alexander Campbell, many times in sermons and lectures. He returned to his home by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivera as far as Quincy, as there were no railroads in the West at that time. For some years lie continued to reside under the parental roof, assisting his father in caring for the homestead.
In 1856 Mr. Booth and Miss Hancock were united in wedlock. To them were born eight children, namely: William S., a resident of North Dakota; Henry S., a prominent lawyer of Cenfralia, Mo.; George E., a practicing lawyer in Carthage; Robert, who is a book-keeper in Kansas City; Emma, a graduate of Lexington; Annie, who attended the Pritchard Institute at Glasgow; John M., who has just entered Columbia College; and one child who died in infancy. The four sons first named were all graduated from the Columbia College and have already made their mark in the world.
Mr. Booth wrote the first letter in regard to the building of a railroad which has since been constructed through Saline County, through the towns of Springfield, Sedalia, Marshall and Miami. In all local enterprises he has ever taken an active and interested part, using his best abilities for the advancement and progress of the county. In his political affiliations lie is a stanch Democrat, and, religiously, holds membership with the Baptist Church. The family of which he is a member has always been noted for its strict integrity and high sense of honor. They have also been more than usually intellectual, and in almost every pursuit or calling which they have entered they have been very successful, and have rarely met with failure.
Mr. Booth wae one of the eight children whose parents were Stephen and Mary (Congleton) Booth, the former a native of Bedford County, Ya., whose birth occurred in 1786. His father, William Booth, probably a native of the same State, was a man of superior education and a large slaveholder. The family is of English origin, the great-grandfather of our subject having emigrated to this country from England. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: Armilda wedded William Hedges, and died in Adams County, Ill.: Clarinda married Miner Hedges, of Illinois; William was a successful business man in Adams County; Elizabeth became the wife of Davis Co 1- vin; Judith married John S. Johnson, of Adams County; Emily is the wife of John T. Turner, of the same county: Mary, wife of John Duncan, resides in Adams County; Sarah, who became the wife of Thomas Sibley, is now a resident of Saline County: and Frances is the wife of John I,.Moore.
As printed in Portrait and biographical record of Lafayette and Saline counties, Missouri (1893). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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