Editing Newton Booth (section)

== Business career ==
In 1850, Booth traveled<ref>{{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Mick |title=TH's Booth family's wide accomplishments |url=https://www.tribstar.com/community/ths-booth-familys-wide-accomplishments/article_b20a4c24-7a15-5a97-bb6a-1f5aaf9b441c.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |language=en}}</ref> to Panama, continuing by ship to San Francisco.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> [[Central Pacific Railroad]] founder,<ref name="Fulton-1924-CP-UP">
*{{cite book |last1=Fulton |first1=Robert Lardin |title=Epic of the Overland |date=1924 |publisher=A. M. Robertson |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVMEAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA14 |language=en |quote=D. W. Strong, Charles Marsh, and L. A. Booth as the other four directors. ... Sacramento, was a cousin of Newton Booth, afterwards Governor of ...}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fulton |first1=Robert Lardin |title=Epic of the Overland |date=1924 |publisher=A. M. Robertson |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu1CAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA14 |language=en |quote=D. W. Strong, Charles Marsh, and L. A. Booth as the other four directors. ... Sacramento, was a cousin of Newton Booth, afterwards Governor of ...}}</ref> Lucius Anson Booth (1820–1906), a cousin and New York native,<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento">
*{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Win. J. |title=An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California |date=1890 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |pages=287–289 |url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/genealogy/sacboo.htm |chapter=Newton Booth |via=Golden Nugget Library |quote=Transcribed by: Marla Fitzsimmons}}
*{{cite book |last1=Booth |first1=Lucius Anson |last2=Booth |first2=Newton |title=Lucius Anson Booth letter to Newton Booth: San Francisco |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79263296 |language=English |date=1849 |oclc=79263296}}
</ref> and Thomas Morton Lindley Sr. (1819–1896),<ref name="oac.cdlib-Lindley">
{{cite web |title=Register of the Lindley Family Papers, 1890-1928 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf838nb68z/entire_text/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=7 February 2022}}
</ref> in 1849, began the firm of Lindley & Booth.<ref name="Willis-1913-History-Sacto">{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=William Ladd |title=History of Sacramento County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present |date=1913 |publisher=Historic Record Company  |pages=239–243 |chapter=Newton Booth |isbn=9783849675011 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRU1AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA239 |language=en}}</ref> When Newton Booth arrived in Sacramento, the first cholera epidemic was spreading, and he went to Amador County, where he was sick for some time.<ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> The epidemic, reportedly, ended in three weeks.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In May 1850, John Forshee, Lucius Anson Booth and John Dye established Forshee, Booth & Co.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> In the spring of 1851, Lucius Anson Booth and John Dye retired from Forshee, Booth & Co.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> In February, 1851, Charles Smith and Newton Booth established a business of Smith & Booth., on J Street, between 4th and 5th streets.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/><ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> Kleinhaus & Co., established in 1852, Theodore P. and David W. Kleinhaus as partners.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/>

The firms suffered from the [[History of Sacramento, California|Sacramento Fire of November 2, 1852]].<ref name="sachistorymuseum-Day-in-History">{{cite web |title=This Day in History |url=http://sachistorymuseum.org/field-trips/fun-facts/ |website=Sacramento History Museum |access-date=7 February 2022 |date=23 February 2015 |quote=November 2, 1852: On this day in 1852, Sacramento’s great fire, known as the Great Conflagration, burned more than 80 percent of the structures in the city.}}</ref><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> Soon after Lucius Anson Booth, one of the organizers of Lindley & Booth, became a partner, and the firm assumed the name of Booth & Co. and continued until 1856, when Newton Booth retired and returned to Indiana, while the firm consolidated with Kleinhaus & Co., but the name was not changed from Booth & Co.<ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> In 1856, C. T. Wheeler and T. L. Barker were admitted as partners.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> The Kleinhauses retired in 1860, and Newton Booth again entered the firm.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> Lucius Anson Booth and T. L. Barker retired in 1862, and Joseph Terry Glover (1832–1886), of San Francisco, became a partner in the firm.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In 1869, Lucius Anson Booth was working in SF and living in Oakland.<ref name="Langley-1869-Dir-SF">{{cite book |last1=Langley |first1=Henry G. |title=The San Francisco directory for the year 1869 |date=1869 |publisher=Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons |location=San Francisco |page=106 |url=https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscodire1869langrich |quote=Booth, Lucius A., real estate, office room 4, 402 Front, residence Oakland}}</ref> In December 1871, business was established in San Francisco in connection with W. W. Dodge.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> The firm in 1878 was composed of Newton Booth, C. T. Wheeler, Joseph Terry Glover and W. W. Dodge.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/>

Newton Booth made his fortune as a saloon keeper.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

He returned to Terre Haute in 1856 and engaged in the practice of law with future U.S. Congressman [[Harvey D. Scott]].<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In the summer of 1857 Booth traveled through Europe.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/>