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Maud Ballington Booth

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628: 31: 439:, March 31, 1916. Accessed July 5, 2009. "Charles Dickinson Stickney, a prominent lawyer of this city, who died on March 8, did not provide in his will for twelve first cousins, two second cousins, and one aunt, but bequeathed his entire residuary estate to Mrs. Maud Booth, widow of Ballington Booth and head of the Volunteers of America, who lives in Kew Gardens, L.I." 180:
In 1887, she took command of the Salvation Army forces in the United States alongside her husband, Ballington Booth. She was also active and successful in slum mission work in New York City. In 1895, Booth became a naturalized American citizen. She lived in
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circuit, moving audiences with her vivid account of life in prisons and calls for reform. Among the other causes she embraced was the legalization of
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Booth's 75th birthday in 1940 was observed with celebrations in over 100 cities across the United States. She attended the event at New York City's
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in London. The work of both her parents there in social issues led to Maud’s interest for social welfare and social service.
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From a scrapbook in the Carrie Chapman Catt Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the
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From a scrapbook in the Carrie Chapman Catt Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the
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on the occasion. Her husband died in 1940, and she died in 1948, at the age of 82, at her daughter's home in
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In 1896, Ballington and Maud left the Salvation Army after a dispute with General Booth, to co-found the
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are housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives.
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in 1886, against her father's wishes. They had two children, Theodora and Charles.
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In 1918, she went to England and France to visit American troops in
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Geneva Correspondent (19 February 1883). "A Lamb Among Wolves".
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Maud Ballington Booth, photograph; to speak in Geneva
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A young white woman with dark hair
Ballington Booth
Florence L. Barclay
Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
Limpsfield
Oxted
Surrey
England
Anglican
rector
novelist
Florence L. Barclay
Limehouse
Miss Catherine Booth
Paris
Geneva
Ballington Booth
Kew Gardens, Queens

Volunteers of America
Chautauqua
euthanasia
World War I
Town Hall
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Great Neck, New York

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