 Tupelo Hardware Company is a family business owned and managed by four generations of the Booth family.The original business was founded in 1926 by George H. Booth, and later incorporated in 1969 by the founder and his son William, who worked with his father after his return from World War II until his father's death in 1973.William and his son, George H. Booth II, worked together from 1976 until William's death in 2000.