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Ralph H. Booth
Ralph Harman Booth (September 29, 1873 Toronto, Canada – June 20, 1931 Salzburg, Austria) was a non-career appointee who served as the American Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark (1930–1931), appointed by President Herbert Hoover. Booth died in office at the age of 57. His professional background was in banking and journalism, as Secretary of the ''Chicago Journal'' from 1895 to 1904), cashier and business manager (1892–1904) for the ''Detroit Tribune'', and Vice President of the Associated Press, 1917–18. He began his career with the Detroit National Bank in 1888. Booth married Myrtle Mary Batterman (1879–1951) on May 23, 1906, and they had two children. Booth was an important donor to the Detroit Institute of Arts and served as its president from 1917 to 1919, and then president of its governing body, the Arts Commission of the City of Detroit from 1919 to 1930. In the 1940s, eight paintings from the family's collection were donated to the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
