George A. Booth is proprietor of the Booth Preparatory School of New Haven, which since June, 1917, has been located at its present quarters and which from the standpoint of convenience and modern adaptability is the best equipped school of the kind in the city. Mr. Booth is a native of Peacedale, Rhode Island, born February 11, 1855. His father, George A. Booth, now deceased, was a native of Manchester, England, and in his boyhood came to America in the '40s. He took up the business of manufacturing woolen floods and was quite successful. His death occurred in 1907 when he had reached the age of eighty-six years. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Hudson and she, too, was a native of England, her birth having occurred in London. She came to America with her parents during her child-hood days and she passed away in 1913 at the advanced age of eighty-five years.

In the family were six children, of whom George A. Booth was the second in order of birth. He pursued his education in the public schools and in Russell's Military School of New Haven, which he attended for five years. He was also a student at flip Bellevue College at Bellevue, Nebraska, where he was graduated with the Ph. B. degree, and later he entered Yale. After completing his education he became connected with large textile manufacturing interests as superintendent and designer and devoted eleven years of his life to such inter-ests.

During that period he was located much of the time in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey. From 1892 until 1897 he was connected with educational work as a teacher in the high school of New Haven and then established the Booth Preparatory School, which was originally located at the corner of Church and Chapel streets, where he continued for twelve years. He then removed to No. 124 High street, where the school was conducted for six years, and later his location was for two years at No. 134 High street. Each removal was necessitated by a sale of the property. The Booth Preparatory School is now located in its new quarters at No. 584 Chapel street, where there is class room for fifty students. This is a splendidly equipped school supplied with every convenience necessary for instruction of that character. The school began with an enrollment of six pupils and today it is taxed to the limit, having an enrollment of fifty pupils. The school gives special work in preparing students for any college in the country, for civil service positions or for entrance to the Annapolis and West Point academies.

On the 8th of June, 1880, Mr. Booth was united in marriage to Miss Anna Dixon, a native of Rhode Island and. a daughter of Anthony Dixon, a Civil war veteran. They have become parents of three children, two sons and a daughter; Ethol, who is the wife of Edmund Greacen, of New York city; George, who resides at Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an electrical engineer with the Vancouver Electric Company; and Ellsworth, who is a civil engineer with the American Telephone & Telegraph Company of New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Booth are members of the United church and Mr. Booth is a Knight Templar Mason, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit which underlies the craft. In politics he is a republican, well versed in the questions and issues of the day, but does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his undivided attention upon the upbuilding of the school, the high standards of which have made it one of the leading institutions of this character in New England.