Evangeline Cory Booth, original name Eva Cory Booth, (born Dec.
25, 1865, London, Eng.
--died July 17, 1950, Hartsdale, N.
), Anglo-American Salvation Army leader whose dynamic administration expanded that organization's services and funding and who became its fourth general.
In 1889, at the age of 23, she was given charge of the Salvation Army's International Training College in Clapton and put in command of all Salvation Army forces in the home counties (London and the su.