Booth, James

Booth, James a Wesleyan, minister in Canada, was a native of Yorkshire, England. He came to America in 1816, and was one of the most self-sacrificing laborers in the upper provinces. He became a supernumerary at Waterloo, Ont., in 1838, but resumed work again in three years. He died at Kingston, Ont., Jan. 22, 1854, in his seventy-third year. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1854; Carroll, Case and his Contemporaries, vol. 5, index.