Samuel B. Booth
{{Short description|American bishop}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| honorific-suffix = D.D.
| name = Samuel Babcock Booth
| title = Bishop of Vermont
| image = Samuel B. Booth.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| church = Episcopal Church
| archdiocese =
| diocese =
| see = Vermont
| term = 1929–1935
| predecessor = Arthur C. A. Hall
| successor = Vedder Van Dyck
| ordination = May 28, 1911
| ordained_by = James Bowen Funsten
| consecration = February 17, 1925
| consecrated_by = Arthur C. A. Hall
| rank =
| birth_date = October 29, 1883
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|06|17|1883|10|29}}
| death_place = Bennington, Vermont, United States
| buried = Chapel of the Transfiguration, Burlington, Vermont
| nationality = American
| religion = Anglican
| spouse = Anna Peck
| children = 7
| parents = Henry Driver Booth & Mary Bourne Babcock
| alma_mater = Harvard University
| previous_post = Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont (1925-1929)
}}
Samuel Babcock Booth (October 29, 1883 – June 17, 1935) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.
Biography
He was born in Philadelphia to Henry Driver Booth and Mary Bourne Babcock Booth. Booth attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from Harvard College in 1906 and the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1911.{{cite book |title=Harvard Class of 1905: Fifteenth Anniversary Report |date=1921 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |page=42}}{{cite book |title=History of the Theological Seminary in Virginia and its Historical Background |date=1923 |publisher=E. S. Gorham |location=New York |page=64}} He was ordained deacon in June 1910 and priest in 1911, serving as a missionary in Idaho from 1910 to 1914. He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross 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.Baptismal Record of Samuel Babcock Booth. Parish Records of St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough. Philadelphia 24 February 1884.
He married Anna Peck in September 1910 at St. John's, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.{{cite book |title=Harvard Class of 1906: Fifteenth Anniversary Report |date=1921 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |page=42}}
References
- Obituary in The Living Church, June 22, 1935, p. 784.
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Category:Clergy from Philadelphia
Category:Harvard College alumni
Category:Episcopal bishops of Vermont
Category:William Penn Charter School alumni
Category:20th-century American Episcopalians
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