Background
Booth, William Stone was born on January 20, 1864 in Gloucester, England. Son of Abraham and Elizabeth Ann (Watts) Booth.
Booth, William Stone was born on January 20, 1864 in Gloucester, England. Son of Abraham and Elizabeth Ann (Watts) Booth.
Educated Cathedral College School, Gloucester.
In lumber business in England, 1880-1885, in Australia, 1885. In Brazil investigating the fibre industry for Star Brush Company of London and Kew Bulletin, 1887-1888, Mexico and United States, 1888-1889, Bahamas, 1889-1890. In lumber business, at London, 1890-1893, in California, 1893-1894.
Engaged as librarian at New York, 1894-1897.
With General Рractitioner Putnam’s Sons, publications, New York, 1897, The Macmillan Company, 1898-1903, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1904-1908. Author: A Practical Guide for Authors, 1907.
Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon, 1909. The Hidden Signatures of Francesco Colonna and Francis Bacon, 1910.
The Drœshout Portrait of William Shakespeare, an Experiment in Identification, 1911.
Marginal Acrostics and Other Alphabetical Devices, a Catalogue, 1920. Subtle Shining Secrecies Writ in the Margents of Books. Etc., 1925. Editor: On Many Seas.
Wonderful Escapes by Americans.
Home: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Married Mary M. Brewster, 1897 (died 1901). Married second, Leonora Howe, November 29, 1904. Children: Elizabeth McPherson, Robert Howe, Emily Lampard.