Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Minnesota records, 1862-1992.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Minnesota records, 1862-1992.

Records related to a state-wide womens organization focused primarily on raising public awareness of the personal and social problems brought about by the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and on the advocacy of individual abstinence and prohibition. Includes records of district and local unions (chapters).

10.5 cubic feet (11 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315727

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Scovell, Bessie Lathe.

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Loyal Temperance Legion

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Youth Temperance Council

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Edna Maine Spooner Edna Maine Spooner, a lifelong resident of R.I., was born in 1891, in the White Rock area of Westerly. She resided in the Eden Park section of Cranston before settling in Kingston near the end of her life. She was the daughter of Reuben C. and Minnie M. Maine. She married Leroy A. Spooner and had one daughter, Lucille S. Votta, with whom she lived when she passed away in 1981. Spooner, a music educator, was the ...

Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Minnesota

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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Minnesota (WCTU) was organized September 6, 1877 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. Its purpose was "To unite the Christian women of Minnesota for the education of public sentiment to the standard of total abstinence from the use of alcoholic liquors; to train the young in habits of sobriety and total abstinence; to promote good citizenship, purity, peace, and the general welfare." Among its many projects the WCTU secured...

Society of the Class of '84 (University of Minnesota).

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Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Saint Paul, Minn.).

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