Samuel B. Booth

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

Booth attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from Harvard College in 1906 and the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1911.

[1][2] He was ordained deacon in June 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.

[3] He married Anna Peck in September 1910 at St. John's, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.[4]