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