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George Gough Booth (September 24, 1864 – April 11, 1949) was the publisher of the privately held Evening News Association, a co-founder of Booth Newspapers, and a philanthropist.
George Gough Booth was a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist, whose crowning achievement was the establishment of today’s Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century.
Detroit publishing magnates and Cranbrook founders George and Ellen Booth were married on June 1, 1887. George Gough Booth was born on September 24, 1864, and Ellen Warren Scripps was born on July 10, 1863.
George Gough Booth (1864-1949), a native of Toronto, was an owner of a successful iron-working company in Windsor, Ontario, when he wed Ellen Warren Scripps (1863-1948), the eldest child of James Edmund Scripps, the founder of the Detroit Evening News (known today as The Detroit News).
Working largely from plans drawn up by George Booth, teams of landscape architects, farmers, gardeners, and laborers were engaged to transform the untended fields of Cranbrook into a beautiful country estate and working farm.
Contents. George Gough Booth. American newspaper publisher. Learn about this topic in these articles: Cranbrook Academy of Art. In Cranbrook Academy of Art. …by a Detroit newspaper publisher, George G. Booth, and his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth, and is named for his father’s birthplace in England.
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George Gough Booth was a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century.
