Samuel B. Booth

The Right Reverend
Samuel Babcock Booth
Bishop of Vermont
Church Episcopal Church in the United States of America
See Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
In office 1929- 1935
Predecessor Arthur C. A. Hall
Successor Vedder Van Dyck
Personal details
Born 29 October 1883
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died June 17, 1935(1935-06-17) (aged 51)
Nationality American
Parents Henry Driver Booth
and Mary Bourne Babcock
Spouse Anna Peck
Children 7
Alma mater Harvard University

Samuel Babcock Booth (October 29, 1883 – June 17, 1935) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. 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. He was ordained deacon in 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.

Booth married Anna Peck on September 6, 1910. Together, they had seven children.

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