Catherine Booth, née Catherine Mumford, (born Jan. 17, 1829, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Oct. 4, 1890, Clacton, Essex), wife of the founder of the Salvation Army (William Booth), and herself an eloquent preacher and social worker.
Her father was a carriage builder and sometime Methodist lay preacher, her mother a deeply religious woman of Puritan type. Catherine, in adolescence an…
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