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7 unusual facts about temperance movement


Jakob Martin Pettersen

He held leadership and other elected positions in several temperance organisations.

Manitoba Liberal Party

The Norris Liberals introduced temperance laws, votes for women, workers compensation, and the minimum wage.

Paul P. Hastings

His mother was the former Rosetta Butler, who was active in the temperance and anti-smoking movements.

The Most Famous Man in America

After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.

Thomas Cook

He was brought up as a strict Baptist, and joined his local Temperance Society.

Tiverton Preedy

A keen supporter of the Temperance movement, Preedy demanded high standards of behaviour from his players, and once refused to allow St Peter's to play a match against local rivals Ardsley Old due to the conduct of the latter's supporters.

Union Colony of Colorado

Meeker's advertisement specifically sought volunteers of high moral standards, who were literate and adherents to the tenets of the Temperance movements.


Allen Trimble

Trimble's daughter, Eliza, helped to initiate the temperance movement in the United States.

Callender's Cableworks Band

The Band was started in the 1890s as a Salvation Army brass band, but because they felt limited as to the types of music which they were permitted to play, they formed their own temperance band.

Folkeopplysningsprisen

It is often traced back to N. F. S. Grundtvig's folk high school movement in Denmark in the 1840s and the use of study circles in Swedish labour- and temperance movements in the very beginning of the 20th century (1902).

Gulstan Ropert

Ropert's peace-loving nature made him hesitate in enforcing in his vicariate the condemnation by the Holy Office of the secret societies of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Sons of Temperance on June 24, 1894.

Hans Andersen Foss

A lifelong proponent of the temperance movement and the Populist Party, Foss edited several temperance publications and from 1888 to 1893 served as editor for the Norwegian language newspaper Normanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Hartford Baptist Church

They passed anti-Masonic resolutions in the 1820s and 1830s, recruited local soldiers into the Union Army out of fervent abolitionism and later suffered the burning of their third church due to their advocacy of temperance and support for local dry laws.

Jameson Irish Whiskey

The temperance movement in Ireland had an enormous impact domestically but the two key events that affected Jameson were the Irish War of Independence and subsequent trade war with the British which denied Jameson the export markets of the Commonwealth, and shortly thereafter, the introduction of prohibition in the United States.

Knut Dybsjord

In 1854 he chaired the first missionary association in Hol, and in 1860 he chaired the first Norwegian temperance league.

Leifchild Leif-Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader PC (16 January 1862 – 26 September 1939), known as Leif Jones before his elevation to the peerage in 1932, was a British Temperance movement leader and Liberal politician.

Lot Hathaway House

Hathaway was active in the temperance movement and in the causes of the Democratic Party.

Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association (AMA) was established by the temperance-oriented Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with an initial grant of $5 million, followed by more substantial funding.

Ruskin House

However, the temperance movement was equally strong, and Georgina King Lewis, a keen member of the Croydon United Temperance Council, took it upon herself to establish a dry centre for the labour movement.

Theodor Larsson

Sven Svenssons Sven — later recorded by the Swedish-American singers Olle i Skratthult and Charles G. Widdén — brought up the subject of temperance while De rysliga bolshevikerna (The terrible bolsheviks) was a sly piece of political satire.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.

United Kingdom Alliance

He had earlier been a member of the Manchester and Salford Temperance Society, and had taken his inspiration from the success of what later, became known as the Maine law.

Walton-le-Dale

Joseph Livesey (1794–1884), temperance campaigner, social activist, writer, publisher and local cheese seller, was born here.

William Angwin

He left Cornwall in 1882 to work as a builder in Whitehaven, Cumberland (now Cumbria), where he joined several reform movements and worked for temperance.


see also

Chauncey Purple

He was very active locally and at a wider level in the temperance movement, taking a leadership position in several organizations, including the Sons of Temperance, Good Templars and Band of Hope.

Eliza Stewart

Eliza Daniel Stewart (1816–1908), early temperance movement leader in the U.S.

Martha Brown

Martha McClellan Brown (1838–1916), major leader in the temperance movement

Robert S. Murphy

Murphy was born in Louisville, New York but spent most of his childhood in Portland, Maine, where his family was active in the temperance movement.

Temperance Town

Temperance Towns, settlements founded by followers of the Temperance movement.

Washingtonian

Washingtonian movement, a temperance movement from early in the history of the United States