William "Cocktail" Boothby
American bartender and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William T. "Cocktail Bill" Boothby (November 10, 1862, in San Francisco – August 4, 1930, in San Francisco)[1] was an American bartender and writer of San Francisco, California in the years before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He tended bar for many years at San Francisco's Palace Hotel. He also served in the California State Assembly for the 43rd district from 1895 to 1897.[2]
William T. Boothby | |
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Member of the California State Assembly from the 43rd district | |
In office January 7, 1895 - January 4, 1897 | |
Preceded by | J. M. Marks |
Succeeded by | Leon Dennery |
Personal details | |
Born | (1862-11-10)November 10, 1862 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Died | August 4, 1930(1930-08-04) (aged 67) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Based on California State Legislature records,[3] he was a resident of San Francisco in January 1895. Based on copyright registration for his 1907/1908 edition of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, he was a resident of or had an office in Mountain View, California in 1907.
According to the introduction of the post-earthquake edition, the 1906 "Great Quake" destroyed the plates for his earlier version of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them.
Boothby's place in the growth of the cocktail is significant; his first bar manual in 1891 contained 20 cocktail recipes among the drinks; the 1934 book under his name contains 172 pages of them.[4]