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The Right Reverend

Samuel Babcock Booth

D.D.
Bishop of Vermont
ChurchEpiscopal Church
SeeVermont
In office1929-1935
PredecessorArthur C. A. Hall
SuccessorVedder Van Dyck
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont (1925-1929)
Orders
OrdinationMay 28, 1911
by James Bowen Funsten
ConsecrationFebruary 17, 1925
by Arthur C. A. Hall
Personal details
BornOctober 29, 1883
DiedJune 17, 1935(1935-06-17) (aged 51)
Bennington, Vermont, United States
BuriedChapel of the Transfiguration, Burlington, Vermont
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsHenry Driver Booth & Mary Bourne Babcock
SpouseAnna Peck
Children7
Alma materHarvard University

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

Biography

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 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. 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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