This is an etext version of Mildred Duff, Catherine Booth: A Sketch, with preface by General Bramwell Booth. Originally published by Salvation Army Book Department, circa 1907. This edition was created by Jone Johnson Lewis, 2003.
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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.
