Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Booth, Mary H. C.

BOOTH, Mary H. C., poet, b. in Connecticut in 1831; d. in New York city, 11 April, 1865. She married a journalist, and went to reside in Milwaukee, Wis., about 1850. She lived in Zurich, Switzerland, several years for the benefit of her health, and while there corresponded with American journals. In 1804, just before her return to the United States, she published a volume of poetry, partly original and partly translated, entitled “Wayside Blossoms among Flowers from German Gardens” (Milwaukee). She reached New York in the last stage of consumption, but succeeded, before her death, in preparing a revised edition of her poetry (Philadelphia, 1805).