Clergyman
Centurion, 1877–1905
Born 16 May 1830 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 23 November 1905 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Henry A. Oakley and Roswell D. Hitchcock
Elected 1 December 1877 at age forty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Brother of William T. Booth
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Century Memorial
The Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth was for nearly thirty years a member of The Century. Born in this city in 1830, he was a student at the New York University and a graduate of Williams College and of the Auburn Theological Seminary, and completed his studies at the University of Halle, Germany. Ordained to the ministry in 1853, he was seven years in Troy, came to Mercer Street Church, afterwards united with the University Place Presbyterian Church, in 1861, and passed to the Rutgers Riverside Church, in 1870, where he was pastor until 1883, when he became Pastor Emeritus. He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly at Pittsburg[h] in 1895. For nearly thirty years he was a trustee of Williams College, for many years was a director of the Union Seminary and of Princeton Theological Seminary, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Alliance, a member of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and a trustee of the Christian College of China in Canton. He was a scholar of large attainment, a writer of acknowledged authority in his field, a devoted and beloved pastor.
Edward Cary
1906 Century Association Yearbook
