“Today, we had a good parade of the Sons of Temperance at Laurel,” Sussex County native William Morgan (no relation to the author) wrote in his diary on May 17, 1848, “the [reviewing] stand 35 by 10 ...

Adna Hecox, who preached the first Protestant sermon in California, was living in Soquel when he established the state’s first Temperance Society in 1847. It was a self-help order where one “took the ...

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As a result of the widespread use of alcoholic beverages during the 1800s in the United States people formed groups to reduce the consumption of intoxicating liquors. This movement was known as the ...

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WITH THE EMERGENCE of a national temperance movement in the 1820s, Rochester residents who were concerned about the ill-effects of drunkenness found a voice in their community. They began speaking out ...

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