Stephen “Steve” Farr Booth was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 13, 1925. He was the eldest son of Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth, and grandson of Cranbrook founders, George Gough and Ellen Scripps Booth. He graduated from Cranbrook School in 1943 and attended Purdue University. He served as an aviation cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps during the Second World War, from 1943 to 1945. In 1947, after Steve Booth’s military service, he married his first wife, Betty Louise Mann, with whom he had three sons: Douglas, Charles, and George. During the 1950s, he became a journalist and an editor for the Pontiac Daily Press and later a publicity manager at WWJ TV & Radio, Detroit, Michigan. Within the WWJ-TV, he created and produced “Hobbies In Action” during the mid-1950s.

During the 1960s, Steve Booth created shows and films for education and public relation services, including live air shows in Michigan and Arizona that featured aerobatic plane displays. In 1967, he produced a children’s movie, “Brighty of the Grand Canyon.” Being an enthusiast for life-size and miniature trains, he wrote extensively on the subject, including multiple books and more than one-hundred articles. He also wrote off-road motorcycle and sailboat articles.

Steve Booth spent twenty years living in California with his second wife, Suzanne Pugh, whom he married in 1976. Steve Booth later married his third wife, Elizabeth, and moved to Sarasota, Florida. He died on December 29, 2011.