Among the residents from various parts of the United States who have come to the Pomona Valley to make their home is Elmer E. Booth, who was born in Glendale, W. Va., December 2, 1881. He was seventeen years of age when he accompanied his parents to California in 1898 and located in Pomona. Soon after arriving in his new home he returned to his native state, enlisted in the Spanish-American War in the First West Virginia Regiment, and after seven months' service came back to Pomona and took a course in the Pomona Business College, afterwards joining his father, J. M. Booth, in the hardware business at Pomona. After a year and a half they sold the store and he and his father and brother, W. E. Booth, and G. F. Vaughn, opened a gentlemen's clothing and furniture store under the firm name of Booth, Vaughn and Sons, at 234 West Second Street. The firm is now known as the Booth and Dehnel Company, and a large and growing custom testifies to their success in catering to high-class trade. Their up-to-date establishment is the leader in its line of business in the city of Pomona. At the end of seven years E. E. Booth disposed of his interest in the business to W. A. Booth and opened a small garage on Second Street. His business increased to such proportions that in 1911 he bought the corner at South Park Avenue and First Street, where Pomona's pioneer livery barn stood. Tearing the old building down he erected his present commodious and modern garage, known as the Park Avenue Garage. Under his administration the business has prospered and increased in volume, and in 1913 he assumed the agency for the famous Paige automobile, for which he is the distributor in Pomona Valley.
Mr. Booth married Miss Cora Martin, October 12, 1914, at Norwalk, Cal., who was born in the East, but was brought up at La Verne, Cal. Their two children are named respectively, Virginia and Ellsworth E., Jr.
In his fraternal affiliations, Mr. Booth is a member of Pomona Lodge No. 107, Knights of Pythias, and also Pomona Lodge No. 789, B. P. O. Elks.
History of Pomona Valley, California, with Biographical Sketches
of The Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days
to the Present
Published in Los Angeles, Cal., by the Historic Record Company
1920
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 10/20/08, Pages 564 & 567
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