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Hiram Evans Booth

25 October 1860—9 July 1940

Born 25 October 1860 near Postville, Clayton County, Iowa.1 Son of Joseph Booth and Caroline Bishop.2 Admitted to the Iowa bar, 1885; attorney in Carson, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 1885–1888.3 Editor and publisher of the Carson Critic, 1885–1887, and publisher of the Pottawattamie School Journal, in Carson.4 Married first Carrie M. Robinson, 24 August 1886, at Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa.5 Wife died, 30 December 1887, at Carson.6 Moved to Salt Lake City, 1888; admitted to the Utah territorial bar, 1889.7 Married second Lillian B. Redhead, 28 May 1889, at Postville.8 Elected to the final Utah territorial legislature, 1894.9 Addressed a Republican rally in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, with Emmeline B. Wells, 23 September 1895.10 Emmeline B. Wells wrote to him, 6 November 1895.11 Elected to represent District 6 in the first Utah Senate, 1896.12 President of the Intermountain Republican newspaper, 1905–1909; paper merged with the Salt Lake Herald to become the Herald-Republican, 1909.13 Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as United States district attorney for Utah, 1906; reappointed by President William Howard Taft, 1910.14 Removed from office after President Woodrow Wilson was elected, 1913.15 Appointed judge advocate general for Utah, 1909.16 Moved to Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the bar, 1922.17 Died 9 July 1940 in Los Angeles.18

Footnotes

  1. 1 Linn Co., IA, Marriage Records, 1840–1928, DGS 4309794, vol. 4, p. 208, 24 Aug. 1886, familysearch.org; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Franklin Harper, ed., Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast (Harper, 1913), 59.

  2. 2 Linn Co., IA, Marriage Records, 1840–1928, DGS 4309794, vol. 4, p. 208, 24 Aug. 1886, familysearch.org; 1870 U.S. Census, Grand Meadow Township, Clayton Co., IA, p. 275.

  3. 3 “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library (Western Edition) [. . .], vol. 2 (International News Service, 1915), 246.

  4. 4 American Newspaper Directory [. . .] (George P. Rowell, 1887), 210, 871; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Harper, Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast, 59; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246.

  5. 5 Linn Co., IA, Marriage Records, 1840–1928, DGS 4309794, vol. 4, p. 208, 24 Aug. 1886, familysearch.org; “Hymeneal Notes,” Evening Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA), 25 Aug. 1886, 4.

  6. 6 “Died,” Postville (IA) Review, 14 Jan. 1888, [3].

  7. 7 “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246; “Hiram Evans Booth,” in History of the Bench and Bar of Utah (Interstate Press Association, 1913), 115; “Married,” Postville Review, 1 June 1889, [3].

  8. 8 Allamakee Co., IA, Marriage Records, 1845–1928, DGS 4320533, vol. 6, p. 132, 29 May 1889, familysearch.org; “Married,” Postville Review, 1 June 1889, [3].

  9. 9 “The Legislature,” Salt Lake Herald, 5 Jan. 1894, 8; “Our Law Makers,” Salt Lake Herald, 9 Jan. 1894, 5; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246.

  10. 10 Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 23 Sept. 1895, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells; “South Cottonwood Rally,” Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sept. 1895, 5.

  11. 11 Wells, Diary, Memoranda 1895.

  12. 12 Mark Drumm, comp., Drumm’s Manual of Utah, and Souvenir of the First State Legislature, 1896 (Mark Drumm, 1896), 60, 88; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246.

  13. 13 “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246; “Former S. L. Attorney Dies,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 11 July 1940, 5.

  14. 14 “H. E. Booth Renominated,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 23 June 1910, 5; “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246.

  15. 15 “H. E. Booth Declines to Resign Position,” Evening Telegram (Salt Lake City), 12 Nov. 1913, 12; “Hiram E. Booth Is Removed as U.S. Attorney,” Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 1913, 1.

  16. 16 “Booth, Hiram Evans,” in Press Reference Library, 2:246; “Former S. L. Attorney Dies,” 5.

  17. 17 “Former S. L. Attorney Dies,” 5; “Hiram E Booth,” 20 Nov. 1922, vol. 1, p. 28, in California, U.S., Occupational Licenses, Registers, and Directories, 1876–1969, Roll of Attorneys, District Court of Appeal, Second District, California State Archives, Sacramento, ancestry.com.

  18. 18 Los Angeles City, CA, Death Records, 1930–1963, DGS 5599416, certificate 9210, 9 July 1940, familysearch.org.