Twenty Eventful Years Of The Oregon Womans Christian Temperance Union 1880 1900 Statistical Historical And Biographical Portraits Of Prominent Pioneer Workers

Author : Lucia H. Faxon Additon
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ISBN 13 : 9781331111924
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Eventful Years of the Oregon Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880-1900 written by Lucia H. Faxon Additon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Eventful Years of the Oregon Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880-1900: Statistical, Historical and Biographical, Portraits of Prominent Pioneer Workers In sending this little volume forth upon its mission we bespeak for it a most hearty welcome from the public at large and from the White Ribbon Sisterhood, particularly of Oregon, coming as it does from the facile pen of Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon, who of all our Oregon workers, is best fitted to write a history of these Twenty Eventful Years, since in all this time she has been in the vanguard of all efforts tending towards the making of temperance sentiment. No one, unaccustomed to writing, can imagine the immense amount of labor and patient painstaking research required to glean the facts contained between these covers. For this is no fairy tale or idle dream of a vivid imagination, but well authenticated statements of actual work and workers accomplished in the face of difficulties and apathy of public opinion which would have daunted less heroic or determined soldiers than those enlisted in this peaceful warfare for God and Home and Native Land. The author has not relied upon her memory in writing this history, in fact many circumstances which she distinctly recollects, but which were not matters of record, were omitted, it being her aim to have all statements substantiated. In this she was materially aided by the many scrap books which she has made of clippings of W. C. T. U. work culled from the daily press during the years of history making, many of these articles being written by herself in her capacity as newspaper correspondent. To the best of our knowledge she has the only complete file of state minutes in Oregon - these, with the White Ribboner, have been a most efficient help in securing material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.