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An Inventory of the Friends Temperance Union (New York, N.Y.) Records, 1876-1905Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staffEncoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries2000
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTEThe Friends Temperance Union of New York was a Quaker organization founded in 1876, which promoted abstinence from all alcohol. It lobbied State and federal officials to research the injurious effects of liquor consumption and to banish its sale. Prominent members, primarily from New York City, included Joseph A. Bogardus, Rachel W. Underhill, Thomas E. Skinner, George T. Capron, Jacob Capron, Jonah L. Rees, William M. Jackson, Anna Rice Powell, and Aaron M. Powell. Aaron Powell edited the National Temperance Advocate from 1873-1894 and in 1878 helped convince the New York State Board of Education to adopt a school text on the effects of alcohol. The Friends Temperance Union of New York ceased to meet after 5mo 1898, and remaining funds were disbursed in 1905. In 1879, New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) appointed a Joint Committee on the Subject of Intemperance to coordinate temperance work in Quaker meetings; many of the representatives to the NYYM Committee from Westbury (New York) Quarter were also members of the Friends Temperance Union. Return to the Table of Contents SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDSRecords of the Friends Temperance Union of New York, 1876-1905. Includes Minutes, 3/5/1876 to 12/12/1880, Executive Committee minutes, 9/1876 to 11/1880, a Treasurer's book, 4/1876 to 9/1905, and miscellaneous papers. The first volume also contains a list of members and the Union's constitution (updated in 1885 & 1889). Return to the Table of Contents SELECTED SEARCH TERMSThis collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Return to the Table of Contents ArrangementThe collection is divided into three series: Return to the Table of Contents DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDSSer. 1. Minutes, 1876-1880
Ser. 2. Financial Records, 1876-1905
Ser. 3. Miscellaneous, 1887-1891, n.d.
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