Ashley Booth is a native of Freetown, Massachusetts, and was born in 1806. In 1809 his parents moved to Chenango county, New York, and in 1830 to Cattaraugus county, in the same State. In 1835 Mr. Booth came to Whiteside county, and first made a claim near the present village of Portland, and in 1837 brought his family to his new home, living for a time in a rail cabin covered with boughs of trees. He lived at various places until 1844, when he opened a farm at Woodward’s bluff, and has resided there since, except a couple of years spent at the Pike’s Peak gold diggings. Mr. Booth married Miss Mary Foy in 1830, and after her death, which occurred in 1872, married Mrs. Fanny Winters. He has only one child, William, who married Miss Adliza Hurd, and is a farmer near Woodward’s bluff.
Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County
