Born in Chicago on the eighth of October, 1889, the son of William Vernon Booth and Nellie (Lester) Booth. He entered Harvard in the class of 1913, and upon graduating went to the New York Law School. After completing the course there he entered the law firm of Platt and Field. On the nineteenth of May he sailed from New York for France, where he joined the Lafayette Flying Corps. He remained in the French service throughout his career, and did not transfer to the American Expeditionary Force, although a commission in it was offered to him. On June 25th, 1918, while flying over the enemy lines, he was attacked by German planes. He and his companions were outnumbered eighteen to five, and a bullet shattered his leg, while another set fire to his machine. He fainted, and his machine started to fall; but the flames were extinguished by the rush of air, and he regained consciousness sufficiently to right his machine in time to effect a landing in No Man's Land. Then, after setting fire to his plane to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, he dragged himself through No Man's Land until rescued by a Frenchman, who carried him into the French front trenches. He was taken to the Scottish Woman's Hospital, at Royaumont, where he died on the tenth of July, 1918.