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...Named by her mother, who had been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the U.S. later, W.C.T.U. President Frances Elizabeth Willard persuaded Eva Booth to assume the fuller, more formal name Evangeline...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...
...gift to the Booths that Christmas was an auburn-haired girl who grew up to be a general-Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army. Now 82 and retired, General Booth has never written her memoirs, though she has often been urged to. Said she: "I have never written about myself. I won't write about myself, and that decides it." But she let somebody else do it: she handed her papers and correspondence over to British Journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson, with whom she had been in close touch for some 20 years. Published this week is Author Wilson...
Overhead, Ruth Nichols. Sadder and bitterer for Evangeline was her rift with Bramwell Booth, who succeeded his father as General of the Army. When in 1922 it was announced in the press that he had ordered Evangeline to leave her phenomenally successful post as Commander in the U.S., a group of potent U.S. supporters of the Army sent a turkey-talking cable to the international headquarters in England. Bramwell was forced to retreat, and Evangeline stayed in the U.S. But General Bramwell was still a problem...
...memo urging that the Army's constitution be changed to allow the election of generals, instead of having them appointed by their predecessors. When Bramwell rejected this suggestion, she circulated the documents among the Army's Commissioners and Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that the Army became a regency administered by Chief of Staff Edward J. Higgins. At a tense meeting of the High Council of Army leaders from all over the world, Bramwell was ousted as unfit to hold office. Higgins was elected general-by 44 votes...