| Title |
Church Review Historical Edition/Vol. 4/No. 1/pg. 62 |
| Article Title(s) |
Temperance and Prohibition Renaissance Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Author(s) |
R. G. M. |
| Page |
62 |
| Subject |
Ministerial Association (Salt Lake City, Utah); Utah--Church history; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Latter Day Saints ; First Presbyterian Church (Salt Lake City, Utah); Presbyterian Church (Salt Lake City, Utah); Presbyterian Church--Utah--Salt Lake City; Presbyterians--Utah--Salt Lake City; Woman's Christian Temperance Union--Utah; Temperance Reform Club (Salt Lake City, Utah); Temperance--Utah; Temperance and religion--Utah; Liberal Institute (Salt Lake City, Utah); Collegiate Institute (Salt Lake City, Utah); Walker's Opera House (Salt Lake City, Utah); Atlas Block; Prohibition; Prohibition Convention; Constitutional Convention; Prohibition League of Utah; Voting--Utah; Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects--Utah |
| OCR Text |
Show Page 62<br><br>TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION.<br><br> About the first organized work done here for the temperance cause was begun about November, 1878, by the coming of Dr. Mackenzie from Boston. He was himself a man who had been set free from the awful bondage of intemperance by the Gospel of Christ, and he forthwith devoted himself to the noble work of rescuing others by Gospel temperance meetings. He had been a surgeon in the navy during the war and was a natural leader of men. He was a large, noble-looking man, with a winning face and manner which readily drew men around him. He began work in the old Liberal Institute building, which stood where the new academy building of the Collegiate Institute now stands. He had a meeting every Monday evening and very soon had a Temperance Reform club of a hundred men. This kept enlarging until at one time there were nearly five hundred men in the club. One winter the third floor of the Jennings building, on the big clock corner, was rented and ev |
| Further Information |
Within this page is a photograph of George F. Goodwin. The first article is about Dr. Mackenzie and the Temperance Reform Club in Utah. The second article is about the controversy on the efforts to cease liquor traffic in Utah. This article includes the citizen votes on the matter and future committees. The last article lists the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Salt Lake Tribune (newspaper) Daily Herald (newspaper) Bradley (Major) Brown, C. F. (Mrs.) Eddy, S. W (Mrs.) Hall, L. E. Hutchinson, W. R. Mackenzie, ?-1884(?) (Dr.) Martin, G. W. (Mrs.) McNiece, R. G. (Mrs.) M., R. G. Nicholson, John Orem, A. J. Raleigh (Bishop) Rathbone, S. E. (Mrs.) Savery, C. D. (Mrs.) Shepard, E. E. (Mrs.) Yarsdorfer, F. T. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Rights Management |
Copyright 2004, Westminster College. All rights reserved. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Manti (Utah); Ogden (Utah); Salt Lake City (Utah); Boston (Massachusetts) |
| People |
Anderson, Edward H., 1858-1928; Clawson, Spencer; Goodwin, George F.; Maughan, Willard W.; Maughn, Willard W.; McNiece, Robert G., 1839-1913; Nicholson, John; Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry), 1857-1933; Smith, Ransford; Thatcher, Moses; Young, Willard |
| Setname |
wc_tw |
| ID |
1095309 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65719xp/1095309 |
