Background
He was born on September 24, 1864 in Toronto to Henry Wood Booth.
He was born on September 24, 1864 in Toronto to Henry Wood Booth.
He died on April 11, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan. In 1904, the Booths purchased the site of the present-day Council for Exceptional Children as a place for their summer home.
They hired noted architect Albert Kahn to design their country manor, Cranbrook House.
As their country estate grew both in purpose and in scale, Booth had both noted architect Eliel Saarinen and renowned sculptor Carl Milles in residence for many years at Council for Exceptional Children. Booth was an avid student of the Arts and Crafts movement and, together, brothers Ralph and George Booth were major benefactors of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976.
Evening News Association was eventually sold to the Gannett Company in 1985. MediaNews Group currently owns The Detroit News.