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About Ellen Scripps Booth
- She died at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Inscription on marker: Married George Gough Booth on June 1, 1887.
- Together, George and "Nellie" also founded the world-renowned Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranbrook_Educational_Community
- Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via George Gough Booth by SmartCopy: Oct 23 2014, 15:34:22 UTC
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Oct 23 2014, 15:35:54 UTC
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Ellen Scripps (1863-1948), also called "Ellen Scripps Booth" to differentiate her from her aunt Ellen Browning Scripps , was a philanthropist, patron of the arts and American businesswoman, one of the first heirs of the Scripps Press Empire -Howard .
Biography
Born in 1863, Ellen Scripps was the daughter of James Edmund Scripps (1835 - 1906), the founder of the major newspaper The Detroit News and the press empire of the Scripps family, the EW Scripps Company , The half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1835 - 1906).
In 1887 she married George G. Booth (1864 - 1949), five children of whom she co-founded the Booth Newspapers group, a newspaper chain covering the southern part of the state of Michigan . She and her husband founded the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan . They acted as patron of the arts.
Among their five children, including three boys, two would later lead the Scripps group, Warren Scripps Booth (1894 - 1987) and Henry Scripps Booth (1897 - 1988)
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Ellen Scripps Booth's Timeline
| 1863 |
July 10, 1863
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Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1888 |
May 31, 1888
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Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1890 |
January 27, 1890
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Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1894 |
April 18, 1894
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Michigan, United States
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| 1897 |
August 11, 1897
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Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1902 |
July 14, 1902
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Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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| 1948 |
January 24, 1948
Age 84
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Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, United States
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January 24, 1948
Age 84
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Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan, United States
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