Samuel Babcock Booth (October 29, 1883June 17, 1935) was fourth bishop of the

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Biography

He was born in

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to Henry Driver Booth and Mary Bourne Babcock Booth. Booth attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from

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in 1906 and the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1911. He was ordained deacon in June 1910 and priest in 1911, serving as a missionary in

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from 1910 to 1914. He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an

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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.

Personal and family life

He was baptized at St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough, on 24 Feb 1884. He married Anna Peck in September 1910 at St. John's, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

References

* Obituary in ''

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