EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800: EVANGELINE BOOTH P/58

                                                                                                                                                                         

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Evangeline Booth. She lived from 1865 - 1950. Evangeline's only political involvement was to throw the weight of the Salvation Army behind the movement for prohibition and against the later movement for repeal.

On April 10, 1923, Evangeline officially adopted the United States as her homeland when she became a naturalised citizen. 

Her reign as Commander of the American Salvation Army came to an end in 1934 when she was elected as the organisation's International Commander-in-Chief. For five years she led the Salvation Army's work in eighty countries.

Evangeline retired in 1939. In 1950, she died at the age of 84 in Hartsdale, New York.