John Rudolphus Booth

Deceased Person

1827 – 1925

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Who was John Rudolphus Booth?

John Rudolphus Booth was a Canadian lumber king and railway baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built a railway to extract his logs; and from Ottawa through to Vermont to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe.

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Born
Apr 5, 1827
Waterloo
Nationality
  • Canada
Died
Dec 8, 1925
Ottawa

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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