Charles M. Booth
CHARLES M. BOOTH, operating one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 22, Tilden township, was born in Marshall county, Iowa, February 9, 1877. He is a son of James R. and Anis (Gray) Booth, natives of Illinois. The father enlisted in 1861 in Company G. Tenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the entire period of the Civil war. He afterward came to Iowa and located in Marshall county, where he engaged in farming until 1882. In that year he moved to Cherokee county and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Tilden township, improving and operating this farm until his death, which occurred in February, 1910. His wife survives him and lives upon the homestead.
Charles M. Booth was reared at home an acquired his education in the public schools of Cherokee county, having been but five years of age when his parents moved to this part of Iowa. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age and then rented his father's farm for two years. He has since been engaged in farming upon rented land and operates today one hundred and sixty acres on section 22, Tilden township. He has lived upon this property for eleven years and has carried forward the work of its cultivation in an able and progressive way. In addition to general farming he breeds mules on an extensive scale and has made this branch of his activites an important and profitable one.
In January 1900, Mr. Booth married Miss Mabel McCown, a daughter of John and Cornelia (Wright) McCown, the former a native of Steamboat Rock, Iowa and the latter of Blackhawk county, this state. The father came to Cherokee county in early life and located at Washta, where he erected and conducted the first blacksmith shop. He is now living retired in that town. Mr. and Mrs. Booth have become the parents of four children: May, aged eleven; Frank, eight; Evan, three; and Velma, one.
Mr. Booth is a member of othe Unitarian church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. Ne neither seeks nor desires public office, p referring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, and in the conduct of his farming interests he is meeting with gratifying and well deserved success.
History of Cherokee County, IA, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1914
