[1] Hoping to recover health in outdoor life and to find fortune in what was then regarded as the far west, Booth emigrated to Jones County, Iowa, after severing his connection with the American School.
[1] At that time the nearest house to the place he chose as his future home was a mile and a half distant, but gradually a flourishing town grew up around him which received the name of Anamosa.
[1] In 1840, Booth built the first frame house erected in Jones County, and in the same year he was married to Mary Ann Walworth, who had been his pupil at Hartford.
[1] He retained the position until his death, though for several years past most of the work has been done by his oldest son, who became his partner in the ownership of the paper in 1868.
[1] He was elected county recorder three times, and during one session of the Iowa House of Representatives engrossing clerk.