In 1986 Eva Burrows became this organization's second woman general; Evangeline Booth was first
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General Eva Burrows, Salvation Army leader - obituary - Telegraph  Apr 6, 2015 ... General Eva Burrows, who has died aged 85, became only the second woman to be appointed General (international leader) of the Salvation Army, in May 1986; the first was General Evangeline Booth, daughter of the...
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General of The Salvation Army - Wikipedia  General is the title of the international leader of The Salvation Army, a Christian denomination ... Evangeline Booth, William's daughter, was elected fourth General of the Army, and Australian Eva Burrows was elected the thirteenth General. ... General Linda Bond is the third woman to hold the post and the fourth Canadian.
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Evangeline Booth - Wikipedia  General Evangeline Cory Booth, OF (December 25, 1865  July 17, 1950) was a British theologist and the 4th General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post of General. ... Eva Burrows. Other topics ... Evangeline Booth was elected General by the second High Council in 1934.
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The Salvation Army - History of the Salvation Army  The Salvation Army History, William Booth. ... He set up a tent in a Quaker graveyard, and his services became an instant success. ... The first female general was Booth's daughter, the dynamic Evangeline Booth, serving from 1934 to 1939. ... Jarl Wahlstrom in 1981; and Eva Burrows, the second female general, in 1986.
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Eva Burrows, Salvation Army's 'People's General,' Dies at 85 - The ...  Mar 24, 2015 ... Named for the first woman to run the organization, General Burrows became the second and led the Salvation Army into Eastern ... In 1986, at 56, General Burrows became the organization's youngest commander. ... Her parents named her after Evangeline Booth, daughter of the Salvation Army's founder...
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Gifts of Speech - Paula Treckel  There, too, she met the man she was to marry --Henry Stanton, a renowned abolitionist ... the ceremony, the 24 year old bride omitted the word "obey" from her vows. ... When the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened on June 12, 1840, there was ... Thereafter, she insisted that she be addressed as Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Cordelia E. Cook - Wikipedia  ... showing her shrapnel wound, for which she received a Purple Heart award. Cordelia Elizabeth "Betty" Cook (March 17, 1919  June 19, 1996) was an American combat nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She was the first woman in the U.S. Army to receive both the Bronze Star Medal award ... She became a surgical nurse with the rank of first lieutenant in the United...
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The Salvation Army - History of the Salvation Army  As a result, he withdrew from the church and traveled throughout England, ... The first female general was Booth's daughter, the dynamic Evangeline Booth, serving ... Learn more about The Salvation Army founders and other important figures.
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Betty Ford - Wikipedia  Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford (ne Bloomer; April 8, 1918  July 8, 2011) was First Lady of the .... On October 15, 1948, Elizabeth married Gerald Ford, a lawyer and World War II veteran, at Grace Episcopal Church, in Grand Rapids. Gerald Ford...
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The Arena: - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Bio - Politico  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has a long history of accomplishment in the public ... As the State of Maryland's first woman Lt. Governor, Ms. Townsend was in ... In the mid-1980s, she founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
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cAlewg tetteti - Ninety-Nines  Top row (left to right): Betty Lambert and Gina Pourneile, co-chairmen ... Watson, impound; Aileen Saunders, social and finance; Isabelle McCrae ... All-Woman Transcontinental. Air ... All-Woman's International. Air Race. Fort Myers, Fla., to. International Airport ... Gocken, Madelet at 23 years of age ..... We came in second.
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Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend  [photo, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland Lt. Governor] ... Character Education Partnership; National Institute for Women's Policy Research. ... She led Maryland in becoming the first state to require community service as a ... in the U.S. Department of Justice; chaired the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation; and...
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'Josef Mengele stopped my mother being murdered in the gas ...  Oct 25, 2014 ... She was put to work on the 12-hour night shift in the nearby ... I didn't know, as a very little girl in Brussels, why my mother had two ... 'We'll show them who we are!' ... breakthrough came when I saw Julie Nixon Eisenhower wearing the .... marriage to Elsa Pataky is in trouble with cheeky social media post.
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On This Day In 1986: Nebraska Gov Race First To Have 2 Women ...  May 13, 2009 ... ... to run for governor  the frist time in history that has ever occurred. ... On This Day In 1986: Nebraska Gov Race First To Have 2 Women ... For the first time in history, two women will square off against each other in a race for governor. ... Boosalis wins the Democratic primary, while state Treasurer Kay Orr...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Jan 22, 2010 ... Catherine Booth designed the bonnet worn by women in this semi-military group founded by her husband. what is the Salvation Army. Reply .
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Annie Fox (nurse) - Wikipedia  Lt. Annie G. Fox (August 4, 1893  January 20, 1987) was the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. At that time the awarding of the Purple Heart did not require the service ... G. Fox was on duty at the time of the attack of the Japanese Imperial Navy on...
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Women's History Collections at THE LIZ LIBRARY: Women's Military ...  Women in the U.S. military have always had a "tough row to hoe" and we owe a lot to ... During the Mexican War, Elizabeth C. Newcume, in male attire, was ... The first woman to receive The Bronze Star was Lt Cordelia E. Cook, Army Nurse ... in 1944 WAC Sergeant Nissly became the first woman in military history to win a...
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Martha Gellhorn, Daring Writer, Dies at 89 - The New York Times  Feb 17, 1998 ... Martha Ellis Gellhorn, who as one of the first female war ... That she was known to many largely because of her marriage to Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945, .... She is not a travel writer or a journalist or a novelist. She is...
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6 World War II Propaganda Broadcasters - History Lists  Aug 13, 2013 ... Check back soon or see our FAQs here. ... Both sides recruited native speakers to broadcast radio messages to ... Gillars broadcasted under the radio handle Midge, but American GIs soon gave her a more infamous nickname: Axis Sally. ... Toguri's prominence saw her branded as one of the war's most...
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Women in the LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department  In 1909, Los Angeles social worker Alice Stebbins Wells petitioned Mayor ... but on September 12, 1910, Mrs. Wells was appointed as the nation's first female ... These employees specialized in the care of female prisoners, and worked in the ... This was remedied by presenting her with "Policewoman's Badge Number One.
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1862- Dorothea Dix, Appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses ...  A noted social reformer, Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female ... at age 59, volunteered her services to the Union and received the appointment in June 1861 placing her in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals.