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Show .'Pte solid wood bar had a baseboard and the counter was gleam. Anna brass cash beautifully polished bouquet of flowers in kept register tinkled merrily. a single workers it was a . J. Wilmer' carved to season a high For many home away from home. was head of the Booth' Mercantile for years. and the was the manager and Isaac Booth was the of the store. Wilmer was master mechanic at the Highland Boy mine. Jesse Mitchell Booth was Robert L. lonely overseer manager of the Booth Garage (now Midvale City Garage on Smelter Street). This garage had the first auto dealership in the south part of the valley. For a time the store served paychecks for smelter as a employees. bank, cashing all The business in a feed store, a grocery store, a hardware and furniture store, a dry goods department and a beauty parlor. The beauty shop was managed by Marie Pear cluded Anderson (Wallace) and later by Bertha Lind was done by Clara Patience (Carlson) and Nellie Patience. Some of the clerks were: son Sabey. Bookkeeping Cora Booth (Larson), Esther Vincent, Eva Walker, Regina Need, Delores Reading (Aylett), Laura Turner Lewis and Lygia Larson. Harry Kemp, Leo Anderson and Glen Lindahl also worked for Booths. Paul Blinn in his saloon courtesy'Gene Phelps Ted R. and Catherine Later, Case machinery and tractors plus a gas and oil dealership were added. Simpson rented the old building from Fern Crittenden from 1947 to 54. Mildred B. Larsen BOOTH MERCANTILE Company in Bingham Junction. He was born in Harrisville, Ohio in 1838. He was a Quaker and married Elvira Mc Millan in. Ohio in 1862. He was a first sergeant in the Isaac Booth founded Booth Mercantile 1902 in Civil War in the Ohio Volunteer National Guard. He migrated to Illinois, farmed for ten yers in Iowa, moved to Kansas and in 1897 moved with his family to Utah. They took up residence near the Salt Lake City and County building. Their children were: J. Wilmer; Jesse Mitchell, Robert Larkin, Griffith McMillan, Charles Ellis, Isaac Rhea and Cora (Mrs. Fred J. Larsen). Booth Mercantile. founded ready to go in 1907. in 1902 wagon is Wilmer by Isaac Booth. The delivery courtesy MUdred B. Larsen Booth engaged in the mercantile business in Canyon for a number of years. He helped build the city and county building in Salt Lake. He married Mamie Finney in 1894 and moved to Mid Mercur and Bingham vale about 1908. He was elected to the state house of 1924 and two years later was elected to the senate. He was 'a member of Mount representatives around Moriah Lodge #2 of Knights ofPythias. J. Wilmer Booth Fred and Cora had six children: Lee Wilmer; Mildred B.; Elvira C. (Milne), Drew McMillan, Fred Jr. and Booth. the Masonic Order and of. the Jessie Mitchell Booth married Katherine Ferre in were Kenneth 0., J. Lynn and . 1903. Their children 126 Robert Larkin Booth. |
