Benjamin Wesley BOOHER

!SOURCES: 1. Booher, Allen G. sr. MY OFTEN MISSPELLED NAME IS BOOHER 2. Booher, Winfield Scott. BOOHER FAMILY HISTORY HORIZONS, Wilmington CA (1976) pp. 105, 122 3. 1880 Fremont Co. IA census [see father] 4. 1910 Guthrie Co. IA census 5. 1920 Rosebud Co., MT census 6. ALASKA STATE LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS !BIRTH: Source-1 p. 76 for date and place !MARRIAGE: Source-1 p. 76 for date and name !DEATH: Source-1 p. 76 for date and place BURIAL: !ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Source-6 In 1900 Ben Booher (Guthrie Center, Iowa) joined his wife's uncle, George Cheever Hazelet, (Omaha, Nebraska) and A. Jack Meals (O'Neill, Nebraska) on a prospecting expedition to Alaska. Booher's diary (p.96) lists fourteen additional men in the party who arrived in Valdez Feb. 1, 1900 on the vessel EXCELSIOR. They prospected in Copper Center, Valdez, Chisna, Chitna, Gulkana and Gakona. Mr. Booher's records the daily work of the party and people met on the trail. He also wrote to his wife in Iowa during the expedition. Ben returned to Alaska in 1904 and worked as a farmer and carpenter. He died in Kent, Washington in April 1975, at age 102. CENSUS: 1910 Source-4 p, 80 #87-88 Dodge Twp Booher, Benj. W. 38 m 15yr IA TN MO farmer Mary E. 35 5-5 IA Eng OH Alice P. 10 IA IA IA Lois M. 6 MN IA IA Helen E. 8/12 IA IA IA ? (m) 0 " " " Elizabeth A. 60 wd MO ON IN Kail, Frank 38 d Aus Aus Aus laborer 1920 Source-5 p. 87 #60-61 Sumatra School District 31 Booher, Benjmain 47 IA TN MO farmer Mary E. 44 IA Eng OH Lois M. 16 MN IA IA Helen E. 13 IA IA IA George Max 9 " " " Ruth M. 4 11/12 MN IA IA Alma G. 3 2/12 " " "

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