Born 29 June 1847 in Leigh, Lancashire, England. Son of Richard Booth and Elsie Edge. Married Maria Harvey, 1 October 1873; five children, Josephine Booth being the second. Maria died, 1 October 1884. Married Delia Winters, 22 June 1887; four children. Died 28 March 1920 in Salt Lake City.[1]
[1] Elsie Delia Adams, John Edge Booth, 1847–1920 (Springville, UT: Art City Publishing, 1962), 22–37, 92–103; “Booth, John Edge,” in Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing, 1913), 762–763.