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== Personal life == [[File:Newton Booth Grave.jpg<!-- |left -->|thumb|Booth Gravesite<ref name="tour"/><ref name="hmdb.org-12425"/>]] He married the widow of Joseph Terry Glover,<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"> *{{cite book |last1=Parkinson |first1=R. R. |title=Pen Portraits: Autobiographies of State Officers, Legislators, Prominent Business and Professional Men of the Capital of the State of California; Also of Newspaper Proprietors, Editors, and Members of the Corps Reportorial |date=1878 |publisher=Alta California Print |location=[[San Francisco]] |pages=115β116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fhw1AQAAMAAJ |language=en |oclc=812130002 |via=[[google books]]}} *{{cite book |last1=Parkinson |first1=R. R. |title=Pen portraits; autobiographies of state officers, legislators, prominent business and professional men of the capital of the state of California; also of newspaper proprietors, editors, and members of the corps reportorial. |date=1878 |publisher=Alta California Print |location=[[San Francisco]] |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89072936792 |language=en |oclc=812130002 |via=[[Hathi Trust]]}} *{{cite book |title=Californiana (bookseller catalog #11) |date=1926 |publisher=Newbegin's |location=San Francisco |page=24 |edition= |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-zvrYCSsw0C&dq=%22Alta+California%22&pg=PA24 |language=en |chapter=Pen Portraits}} *{{cite book |author1=California Historical Records Survey Project |title=A Check List of California Non-documentary Imprints, 1833-1855 |date=1942 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7js7Od7DscC&dq=%22Alta+California+Print%22&pg=PP79 |language=en |quote=Alta California Print}} *{{cite book |title=Catalogue 134 |date=1941 |publisher=Edward Eberstadt & Sons |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zU1OAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Alta+California+Shipping+List%22&pg=PA31 |language=en |chapter=Alta California Shipping List, 1849. Woodworth and Morris; [[San Francisco]]: Alta California Print.}} [https://cmu.marmot.org/Record/.b12397283 Microfilm] at [[Colorado Mesa University]]; [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1314 Edward Eberstadt & Sons - Collection: Archives at Yale] *{{cite news |title=ALTA CALIFORNIA PRINTING HOUSE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18690724.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=[[Daily Alta California]] |location=529 California Street, San Francisco, California |page=2 |date=24 July 1869 |quote=Volume 21, Number 7065. This establishment has been in operation since the year 1849 and has become celebrated throughout the Pacific Coast for the elegance and promptitude with which orders have been executed. The prices are satisfactory, as evidenced by the constantly recurring orders from the same parties who have been in the habit of procuring their work here. OUR JOB TYPES and PRINTING MATERIALS Are the most beautiful that could be selected, now used in executing FINE LETTER PRESS PRINTING, SUCH AS BOOKS, CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS. CARDS, HAND-BILLS. INSURANCE POLICIES BILLS OF LADING, BILL-HEADS, BANK CHECKS. BLANKS, RAILROAD, STAGE AND STEAMBOAT BILLS or EVERY VARIETY, WITH APPROPRIATE ENGRAVINGS. FROM THE FINEST CARD, AND THE MOST DELICATE CIRCULAR, TO THE MOST SHOWY POSTER. |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]}} *{{cite book |last1=Parkison |first1=R. R. |chapter=Booth & Co., Wholesale Grocers. - Sacramento Large Business Houses, 1878 |title=Pen Portraits |date=1878 |location=San Francisco |pages=113β142 |url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/genealogy/bus.htm |via=Golden Nugget Library |quote=Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton}} </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18710421.2.27.2|title=Sacramento Daily Union 21 April 1871 β California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18740718.2.47.3|title=Sacramento Daily Union 18 July 1874 β California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> his business partner, Octavine C. Glover<ref name="SDU18950504.2.43.2">{{cite news |title=Octavine Booth, the widow of ex-Governor Booth, for the fine oil portrait of him which she presented to the State last winter |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18950504.2.43.2 |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Sacramento Daily Union]] |publisher=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |date=4 May 1895}}</ref> (1833β1907) on 9 February 1892, in Sacramento, where he died, in July 1892.<ref name="Sacramento Daily Union 1892">{{cite news |title=NEWTON BOOTH. Death Overtakes Him Suddenly and Unexpectedly |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18920715.2.20 |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Sacramento Daily Union]] |publisher=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |date=15 July 1892}}</ref> His wife, Octavine C. Booth (1833β1907), Glover's mother-in-law, Eliza Payne (1810β1873); his sister-in-law, Julia E. Dunn (1839β1923); and his brother-in-law, William Henry Payne (1848β1919); are interred in the Newton Booth plot<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> in [[Sacramento Historic City Cemetery]].<ref name="tour">{{cite book| title=Self Guided Tour| publisher=Historic City Cemetery, Inc.| date=January 2006| access-date=January 29, 2011| url=http://www.oldcitycemetery.com/images/PDF/SelfTour.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209075708/http://oldcitycemetery.com/images/PDF/SelfTour.pdf| archive-date=December 9, 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="hmdb.org-12425">{{cite web |title=Newton Booth, Sacramento City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway, Sacramento CA 95818 |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=12425 |website=[[Historical Marker Database]] |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> He was the uncle of author [[Booth Tarkington]], son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in [[Terre Haute]].<ref>{{cite web |title=John S. Tarkington Papers, 1844-1923 (Bulk 1910-1923) |url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/john-s-tarkington-papers-1844-1923.pdf |access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="tribstar-booth-family">{{cite news |title=The Booth Family of Terre Haute |url=https://www.tribstar.com/community/the-booth-family-of-terre-haute/article_f566233e-00ce-5d5a-b707-704242b17738.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Terre Haute Tribune-Star]] |language=en}}</ref>
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