From Wikipedia:

George Gough Booth (September 24, 1864 – April 11, 1949) was the publisher of the privately held Evening News Association, a co-founder of Booth Newspapers, and a philanthropist.

Biography

He was born on September 24, 1864 in Toronto to Henry Wood Booth.

Booth got his start in the newspaper industry as the son-in-law of James E. Scripps (who, in turn, was the older half-brother and one-time partner of E.W. Scripps). With his two brothers, George started with The Detroit News and founded the independent Booth Newspapers, a chain spanning the southern half of Michigan.

He died on April 11, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan.

Philanthropy

Booth and his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth, founded the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranbrook_Educational_Community

In 1904, the Booths purchased the site of the present-day CEC as a place for their summer home. They hired noted architect Albert Kahn to design their country manor, Cranbrook House. As their country estate grew both in purpose and in scale, Booth had both noted architect Eliel Saarinen and renowned sculptor Carl Milles in residence for many years at CEC.

Booth was an avid student of the Arts and Crafts movement and, together, brothers Ralph and George Booth were major benefactors of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Legacy

Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976. WWJ AM-FM-TV was eventually sold to the Gannett Company in 1985. MediaNews Group owns The Detroit News.
Inscription on marker: Founded Cranbrook with Ellen Scripps Booth, his wife.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial by SmartCopy: Oct 23 2014, 15:34:22 UTC

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• George's birth, biographical, and death information are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gough_Booth
• From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQI9m3PeJ-A:
  • "Ralph Booth was a younger brother of Cranbrook’s founder George Gough Booth, who helped establish and run Booth Newspapers. A second career, which dovetailed with his civic duties as head of Michigan’s largest chain of newspapers, was his work with the arts. Having followed his brother and mentor, James Scripps, as the Scripps-Booth representative on the board of the Detroit Art Museum he quickly become Board President. In 1919 Mr. Booth accepted the challenge of leading the effort to raise the funds to transform the museum into a new “Detroit Institute of Arts”. This included not just constructing a new building but also filling it with art treasures (the donation of his personal collection nearly doubled the institute’s holdings) befitting a world-renowned art museum."