Catherine Booth

<h1><SPAN name="dates"></SPAN>Dates in Mrs. Booth&#8217;s Life</h1> <p>1829. January 17th. Catherine Mumford born at Ashbourne, Derby.<br/> 1829. April 10th. William Booth born at Nottingham.<br/> 1843. Catherine has to leave school owing to severe illness. 1844. Refuses to be engaged to her cousin.<br/> 1845. Is converted. 1846. Seems likely to go into consumption.<br/> 1850. Takes Sunday class of elder girls.<br/> 1851. June. Miss Mumford hears Mr. Booth preach; later meets him at a friend&#8217;s house.<br/> 1852. May 15th. They are engaged to be married. <br/>1855. June 16th. The wedding.<br/>1857. Mrs. Booth speaks to a children&#8217;s meeting on Temperance. <br/>1859. She starts work among drunkards. She writes her first pamphlet on woman&#8217;s right to preach.<br/> 1860. Mrs. Booth speaks for the first time in public.<br/> 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Booth break up their home in the north, and come to London, choosing an evangelistic life.<br/> 1864. Mrs. Booth begins to hold Evangelistic campaigns apart from her husband.<br/> 1864. July. East End Mission begun.<br/> 1868. First Headquarters established.<br/> 1869. Mrs. Booth&#8217;s wonderful Brighton campaign. <br/>1870. East London Mission becomes the &#8216;Christian Mission.&#8217;<br/> 1871. Mrs. Booth publishes her first book.<br/> 1877. Christian Mission becomes &#8216;The Salvation Army.&#8217;<br/> 1878. The uniform is chosen.<br/> 1886. First Self-Denial Week.<br/> 1888. February. Mrs. Booth learns that she is suffering from cancer.<br/> 1888. June 21st. Mrs. Booth speaks in public for the last time (at the City Temple).<br/> 1889. August. She goes to Clacton-on-Sea.<br/> 1890. October 4th. Mrs. Booth is promoted to Glory.<br/> 1890. October 6th. Her body brought to Congress Hall, Clapton.<br/> 1890. October 11th. Funeral at Abney Park.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />