Background

Booth, John Nicholls was born on August 7, 1912 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Sydney Scott and Margaret (Nicholls) Booth.

Education

Bachelor, McMaster University, 1934. Master of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School Theological School, 1942. Doctor of Letters, New England School Law, 1950.

Career

Professional magician, 1934-1940; minister, Unitarian Church, Evanston, Illinois, 1942-1948; minister, 1st Church, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1949-1957; minister, 2d Church (formerly Old North Church), Boston, 1958-1964; minister, Unitarian Church, Long Beach, California, 1964-1971; interim pastor, New York City, Gainesville, (Florida), Detroit, 1971-1973. Celebrity platform lecturer, performer on conjuring, 1942-1958. Ministerial adviser to liberal students Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958-1963.

Member books selection committee General Theological Library, Boston, 1960-1963.

Achievements

• John Nicholls Booth has been listed as a notable minister, writer, photographer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Fabulous Destinations

    (John Booth temporarily gave up his his years of a unitari...)

  • The Fine Art of Hocus Pocus

    (Book by Booth, John Nicholls)

  • Psychic Paradoxes

    (Book by Booth, John)

  • Booths in History: Their Roots and Lives, Encounters and Achievements

    (PAPERBACK)

  • The John Booth Classics (Forging Ahead in Magic, Marvels of Mystery)
  • The quest for preaching power,
  • Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett: With Personal Recollections of Each (Classic Reprint) by John Wilkes Booth (2015-09-27)
  • Booths in History: Their Roots and Lives, Encounters and Achievements by John Nicholls Booth (1982-10-02)
  • Dramatic Magic: The Art of Hidden Secrets Exploring Aspects of Tricks
  • Creative World Conjuring
  • Wilkes Booth's Private Confession of the Murder of President Lincoln: And His Terrible Oath of Vengeance; Furnished by an Escaped Confederate (Classic Reprint) by John Wilkes Booth (2015-09-27)
  • Forging Ahead In Magic
  • Forging Ahead in Magic. the Secrets of Successful Magicians...Not Their Tricks...But the Practical Ideas and Business Methods Whereby They Have Gained Prominence and Profit
  • The story of the Second Church in Boston, the original Old North;: Including the Old North Church mystery
  • Around Hanley Revisited (Britain in Old Photographs (History Press)) by John Booth (2009-05-18)
  • Dramatic Magic: The Art of Hidden Secrets Exploring Aspects of Tricks by John Nicholls Booth (1988-06-01)
  • The John Booth classics

Membership

Co-founder Japan Free Religious Association, Tokyo, 1948. Co-founder Massachusetts Memorial Society, 1962, director, 1962-1964. Organizer Memorial Society Alachua County (Florida), 1972.

President Long Beach Mental Health Association, 1964-1966. Advisory council Fair Housing Foundation. Member Unitarian-Universalist Ministers Association (past director), American Unitarian Association (past committee chairman), Unitarian Ministers Pacific Southwest Association (vice president), Clergy Counseling Service Southern California, Society of America Magicians (inducted into Hall of Fame 1983), Magic Castle Hollywood, International Brotherhood Magicians (honorary life), Los Angeles Adventurers Club (president 1983), Evanston (Illinois) Ministerial Association (president 1947-1948).

Connections

Married Edith Kriger, October 1, 1941 (deceased September 22, 1982). 1 child, Barbara Anne Booth Christie.

Father:

Sydney Scott Booth

Mother:

Margaret (Nicholls) Booth

Spouse:

Edith Kriger

child:

Barbara Anne Booth Christie Booth