Evangeline Booth

General Evangeline Cory Booth, OF, was the 4th General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was its first female General.

She was born in South Hackney, London, England, the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became the Salvation Army in 1878. Catherine Booth had recently read Uncle Toms Cabin and wanted to name her baby Eva, but William Booth did not like the name and wrote Evelyne on the birth certificate. Years later, while in the United States, Evelyne would be persuaded by Frances Willard, founder of the Womans Christian Temperance Union, to adopt the name Evangeline as being more dignified and more befitting the commander of The Salvation Army in America.

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