Records of the Harvard Anti-Wine Society and of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society, 1836-1843.

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Records of the Harvard Anti-Wine Society and of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society, 1836-1843.

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The Records of the Harvard Anti-Wine Society, 1836-1840, include meeting minutes and membership information, most often in the form of transcribed letters of withdrawal. The records are bound in the same book as the records of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society (back to back and inverted). The records also include a loose handwritten account of the Society, written by one of the society's founders, Charles Henry Appleton Dall (AB 1837). The Records of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society, 1841-1843, include meeting minutes and a list of pledged members. The records are bound in the same book as the records of the Harvard Anti-Wine Society (back to back and inverted).

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886

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Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840 and was then ordained to the Unitarian ministry. He was sent to St. Louis where he organized the first free school for the poor located west of the Mississippi River. Rev. Dall served Unitarian parishes in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ontario, Canada, until 1855 when he became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian Church in America. Rev. Dall's missionary work...

Harvard Total Abstinence Society.

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Harvard Anti-Wine Society.

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The Harvard Anti-Wine Society was originally organized as the University Temperance Society in 1836 out of a joint meeting of the Cambridge and the University Temperance Societies. The new Society was open to all members of the University who signed a pledge to abstain from the use of ardent spirits and wine. In 1837, the organization changed its name to the Harvard Anti-Wine Society to reflect more clearly the goals of the society. In October 1841, the Society was replaced by the H...