Introduction

Biography

Evangeline was the daugh­ter of Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) found­ers Will­iam Booth and Cath­er­ine Mum­ford.

She be­came a full fledged SA mem­ber at age 15, as she proud­ly donned the uni­form of an SA ser­geant. How­ev­er, she was known to al­so wear the same tat­tered clothes as the flow­er girls she oft­en min­is­tered to at Pic­ca­dil­ly Cir­cus.

In 1869, Booth tra­veled to Ca­na­da and Am­er­ica, and in 1904, was as­signed as na­tion­al com­man­der in Am­er­ica, where she served three de­cades. She was an SA ge­ne­ral 1934–39. She ne­ver mar­ried, but did adopt and raise four child­ren. Her mu­sic­al and dra­ma­tic abi­li­ties led to com­pa­ri­sons with Sar­ah Bern­hardt.

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