George Gough Booth

George Gough Booth (1864-1949) was the publisher of the Detroit News and philanthropist who founded the world-renowned Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Booth hired noted architect Albert Kahn to design his country manor, Cranbrook House, and had both architect Eliel Saarinen and sculptor Carl Milles in residence for many years at Cranbrook.

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 Edward W. Scripps. With his two brothers, George also founded Booth Newspapers, comprised of a newspaper network spanning across the southern half of Lower Michigan. That chain was sold to Advance Publications (a Samuel I. Newhouse property) in 1976.

Together, brothers Ralph and George Booth were major benefactors of the Detroit Institute of Arts.