Joseph T. Booth is the proprietor and publisher of the Wyoming Press of Evanston, a paper which would be a credit to a city of much larger size than that in which he is conducting business. He has made his paper a feature in the continuous growth of the city, as it has ever been an advocate of that spirit of enterprise which has led to the rapid and substantial upbuilding of Evanston and of Uinta county.
    Mr. Booth is a western man by birth, by training and by preference and in his life exemplifies the spirit of progress which has ever dominated this section of the country. He was born at Coalville, Utah, May 18, 1880, a son of John Booth, a native of England, who came to America in 1847 and established his home on the Pacific coast, first locating at Stockton, California. He crossed the plains about 1855, making the overland trip, and he was among the well known Indian fighters of that period. He was born April 1, 1830, in Lancashire, England, and he had passed the seventy-third milestone on life's journey when he died. In his early manhood he followed gold mining in Utah and also devoted his attention in considerable measure to coal mining. He developed various properties at Coalville and was known as a prominent and successful operator. He married Ann Lythgoe, a native of Virginia and a representative of one of the old families of Virginia of English lineage, founded in America during the early part of the eighteenth century. Mrs. Booth passed away at Coalville, Utah, in 1902, when seventy years of age, her birth having occurred in 1832.
    Joseph T. Booth was the youngest of seven children. He pursued his education in the public schools of Coalville and in the academy there. During that time, he had gained a fair knowledge of the printer's trade, having worked at odd times in local print shops. At the age of twenty he came to Evanston, where he arrived on the 12^th of March, 1900. Here he entered the office of the old News Register, then conducted by J. U. Allard, by whom he was employed as a printer for two years. Mr. Booth then purchased the plant and changed the political policy of the paper, which had formerly been democratic. After publishing the paper under the old name for three years he sold the plant to George Ewer, who consolidated the paper with the Wyoming Press. Mr. Booth established the Wyoming Press and after disposing of the paper he removed to Salt Lake and was there connected with the Herald and Tribune for several years. In 1909, however, he returned to Evanston and again purchased the printing office with which he is now connected. He has since been continuously identified with the Wyoming Press and has been very successful in its publication. The paper now has a circulation of nine hundred, which is largely local. He has made it an attractive sheet, thoroughly modern in the equipment of the plant and in the methods of publication. The plant is supplied with excellent machinery for the publication of the paper and for the conduct of a job printing business and Mr. Booth holds to the highest standards in his work.
    At Evanston on the 4^th of September, 1906, Mr. Booth was united in marriage to Miss Edna L. Peterson, a native of Evanston and a daughter of Peter and Mary (Rasmussen) Peterson, both of whom were natives of Denmark and became early settlers of Evanston. Mr. Peterson was for some years an engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad. Both Mr. and Mrs. Booth are members of the Presbyterian church and he is also affiliated with the Evanston lodge of Masons. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and he has always taken an active interest in everything relating to the public welfare and to civic improvement. He has made his party the champion of well defined plans and measures for the general good and has taken the initial step in advancing many interests which have been of great benefit to the locality. He has no other interests outside of his paper, devoting his entire time to the publication of the Press, and has been a close student of modern journalism, embodying the most progressive ideas in the publication of his paper. His editorials indicate wide reading and research along the lines discussed and the Press has become both the molder and the mirror of public opinion in Uinta county.