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Lincoln, the advocate of abstinence.

Authors:
unknown
Item ID:
71200908411935
Publisher:
Chicago : Methodist Book Concern, 1922.
Call Number:
E457 .L563 1922
Physical Description:
pages [633 (1)], 645 (12) : illustration ; 35 cm
Topic:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on temperance.
Note:
CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS TO REACH THIS DOCUMENT.; Detached from The Epworth Herald, Patriotic number, Vol. XXXIII, no. 27, July 1, 1922.; Relates the story of Lincoln's temperance speech of 1842. Sixty-five years before the founding of the Lincoln Legion (a pledge program which asked for abstinence from the use of alcohol by its signers), farmers and their families gathered at the South Fork School House in Sangamon County, Illinois to hear an appeal for total abstinence and to sign the pledge presented by a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.
Publication Source:
Epworth Herald. Patriotic number, Vol. XXXIII, no. 27, July 1, 1922, pages [633 (1)], 645 (12). (OCoLC)1568138
OCLC Number:
ocn912421048
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets