Edwin Cooper Booth
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 20, 1944Born: June 6, 1918
Died: March 20, 1943
Married:
Corporal Edwin Cooper Booth was a World War II veteran. He was the first Saranac Lake casualty of the war to be listed on a board that the Village posted at the beginning of the war, but not the first to die; see Carl A. Blumenthal.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 18, 1948
The body of another Saranac Lake man is enroute to this country from the African theater. Being returned is Cpl. Edwin Cooper Booth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Booth of 7 Circle street. The body is aboard the Barney Kirschbaum.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 1943, reprinted in Howard Riley's column, February 25, 2023
First Saranac Lake casualty of World War II
Corp. Edwin Cooper Booth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Booth of 82 Main Street, died in action in the African area March 20 [1943]. He became the village's first casualty of world war two. The parents of the young soldier received a telegram from the adjutant general Friday morning announcing his death.
Corp. Booth was inducted into the army about one year ago. He was with the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a pharmacist. He landed in Africa only a few days before his death. Further particulars are expected by his family in the next few days.
Corp. Booth was born June 6, 1918, the son of Edwin and Adelaide Booth. He was graduated from the Saranac Lake high school and from Buffalo's School of Pharmacy. After completing his course work he worked in Kendall's Pharmacy [also at 82 Main Street --Blue Line Sports shop today] owned by his father. He was inducted into the service on April 28, 1942.
In June of last year he attended a laboratory technician school in Washington, D.C.
Surviving are his parents, one brother, George A., student at Albany Pharmacy School and one sister, Mrs. James Melvin of Lake Placid.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 4, 1948
TRIBUTE PAID CPL. E. BOOTH AT RITES TODAY
Relatives, friends and buddies filled the Presbyterian church this afternoon to pay their final respects to Cpl. Edwin Cooper Booth, first Saranac Lake casualty of World War II, at memorial services at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Alvin B. Gurley, pastor, officiated at the service. A military escort of veterans, representing local posts, escorted the body and full military rites were observed at the grave in Pine Ridge cemetery.
Pall bearers were David Roberson, Jack Miller, Dr. John R. Murphy, Kenneth Jones, Richard Mullen and Bernard Mullen. The body which had reposed at the home at 7 Circle street since Wednesday was taken to the church at noon today where it lay at rest until the rites.
Cpl. Booth died in North Africa on March 20, 1943 while serving with the Army Medical corps. He was the son of Edwin J. and Adelaide Cooper Booth and was a graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy.
Besides his parents he is survived by a brother, George Booth of Saranac Lake and a sister, Mrs. James Melvin of Lake Placid.
