Mr. John Booth.

The subject of this sketch died in New York city, Sept. 23^rd (1895). He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in December, 1839. He was the younger of the two Booth Bros. who have for more than a third of a century been prominently identified with the granite quarrying business in Maine and Connecticut, the present company known as the Booth Bros. and Hurricane Isle Granite Co., operating a dozen extensive quarries producing granite for building and paving, as well as for monumental structures, having offices in New York city, New London, Conn., Rockland, Me., and Philadelphia. Mr. John Booth came to New York in 1870, and shortly afterwards formed a partnership with his brother William, the firm being known as Booth Bros. Subsequently the firm increased in numbers and early in 1889 the business was organized into the present joint stock company.

Mr. John Booth was universally esteemed as a man of broad culture and unswerving integrity. He understood the quarrying and building business thoroughly, and his judgment of men was unerring. His death is sincerely mourned throughout the entire granite region of the East.

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