General William Booth, born in 1829, was the founder and leader of the Salvation Army, a Christian and social welfare organization taking spiritual and material help to the needy, first in London and then around the world. Booth, ordained a Methodist minister in 1858 but later becoming an independent evangelist, changed the name of his Christian Mission to the Salvation Army in 1878, adopting a military structure. Booth?s seven children toiled in the Army, organizing units (including the Volunteers of America) throughout the world. William Booth died in 1912.
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