Windham County Loyal Temperance Legion records, 1887-1901.

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Windham County Loyal Temperance Legion records, 1887-1901.

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Minute books, subscription records, a volume of conference reports, and a notebook kept by Gratia E. Davidson, a prominent member of the Vermont Women's Christian Temperance Union, document the activities of the Loyal Temperance Legion and the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Windham County, Vermont at the end of the nineteenth century. Three minute books, kept between 1887 and 1894 by women of Newfane, Vermont's Loyal Temperance Legion, Company B, detail meetings, resolutions, and social events, identifying active participants and officers in the organization. Entries include citations of Bible readings, prayers, pledge recitations, lessons on temperance, and literary and musical performances. Two additional volumes contain the mailing list of subscribers to the official monthly paper of the Vermont Women's Christian Temperance Union, Our Home Guards, between 1893-1895. A volume (28 pages) contains reports of the 5th through 9th Annual Conventions of the Windham County Loyal Temperance Legion, held in various locations from 1894 to 1901. A notebook (55 pages) of Newfane chapter organizer and Vermont Women's Christian Temperance Union Secretary, Gratia E. Davidson, is also present. The volume contains detailed notes, dating from 1891 to 1901, on members, meetings, resolutions, lectures, and finances of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, as well as several retained copies of letters and telegrams to government officials.

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Loyal Temperance Legion (Newfane, Vt.) Company B.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Vermont

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Loyal Temperance Legion (Windham County, Vt.)

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Loyal Temperance Legion, juvenile temperance branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). Established formally in the United States in the 1880s, Loyal Temperance Legion divisions corresponded with state districts or counties. Local societies, called companies and lettered according to the time of their formation, composed the divisions. The work of the Legion was focused on children under the age of sixteen. Boys and girls who were members pledged to abstain from alcohol, tobacc...

Davidson, G. E.

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