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George Booth (June 28, 1926 – November 1, 2022) was an American cartoonist who worked for The New Yorker magazine. His cartoons usually featured an older everyman, everywoman, or everycouple beset by modern complexity, perplexing each other, or interacting with cats and dogs.
Alfred and Charles Booth were cousins of William James Lamport, co-founder of the Liverpool shipping company Lamport and Holt Line, and worked in the company's office.In 1851 Lamport transferred minority shareholdings in a cargo steamship, the Nile, to several associates including Charles Booth and George Holt.
Booth Newspapers was founded by George Gough Booth and his brothers in 1893 and was a media company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1976, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. of Advance Publications acquired Booth Newspapers for $305 million, the equivalent to $1,452,406,433 in 2021. [1] The Herald Company, Inc. merged with Booth Newspapers, Inc. in ...
George Gough Booth (September 24, 1864 – April 11, 1949) was the publisher of the privately held Evening News Association, a co-founder of Booth Newspapers (now MLive Media Group), and a philanthropist.
George Gough Booth (1864–1949), American newspaper publisher, philanthropist and founder of the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; George Booth (politician) (1891–1960), New South Wales politician; George Macaulay Booth (1877–1971), British businessman and a director of the Bank of England; George Formby (1904 ...
Booth retired from the firm in 1898; George H. Flinn, son of the founder, succeeded him, and in 1924 two other sons, William and A. Rex Flinn joined the company. [ 4 ] The company was purchased by a New York City construction firm in 1951 and closed.
George Booth was the son of Sir William Booth of Dunham Massey and Margaret Assheton. Sir William Booth was the son and heir apparent to Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet (1566–1652), of the ancient family settled at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, by his wife Vere Egerton, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Egerton.
The Booth Company Building is a historic building in Sacramento, California. It is California Historical Landmark No. 607 and is located at 1019–1021 Front Street in Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Booth Company was opened by lawyer Newton Booth as a wholesale grocery store and general store.