Booth, Charles (1840-1916)

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Lecture on Social Settlement System, July 28, 1902

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, December 4, 1903

Problems of Municipal Administration, January 1905

Problems of Municipal Administration, 1906

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 12, 1910

International Cooperation in Social Welfare, July 2, 1924

Speech to the Woman's City Club, May 19, 1926 (excerpts)

Jane Addams to William Arthur Maddox, October 22, 1926

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Birth Date

1840-03-30

Death Date

1916-11-23

Birthplace

Liverpool, England

Biographical Text

Charles Booth was a business partner with his brother in the Alfred Booth and Company, a leather and skins business. He was also a founder of the Booth Steamship Company. Booth investigated poverty in London and published his findings in Labour and Life of the People of London, which exposed the true extent of poverty in the city. His cousin, Beatrice Potter, assisted him with his research.

Booth married Mary Macaulay in 1871. Booth died in 1916.