Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Honorific-Suffix: | D.D. |
Samuel Babcock Booth | |
Bishop of Vermont | |
Church: | Episcopal Church |
See: | Vermont |
Term: | 1929–1935 |
Predecessor: | Arthur C. A. Hall |
Successor: | Vedder Van Dyck |
Ordination: | May 28, 1911 |
Ordained By: | James Bowen Funsten |
Consecration: | February 17, 1925 |
Consecrated By: | Arthur C. A. Hall |
Birth Date: | October 29, 1883 |
Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
Buried: | Chapel of the Transfiguration, Burlington, Vermont |
Spouse: | Anna Peck |
Children: | 7 |
Parents: | Henry Driver Booth & Mary Bourne Babcock |
Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
Previous Post: | Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont (1925-1929) |
Samuel Babcock Booth (October 29, 1883June 17, 1935) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.
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 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. He succeeded Arthur C. A. Hall as diocesan bishop on February 26, 1930.
He was baptized at St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough, on 24 Feb 1884.[3]
He married Anna Peck in September 1910 at St. John's, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.[4]