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NEAL DOW (1804-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEAL See also:DOW (1804-1897)  , See also:American See also:temperance reformer, was See also:born at See also:Portland, See also:Maine, on the loth of See also:March 1804 . His parents were See also:Quakers and he was educated at the See also:Friends' School in New See also:Bedford, See also:Massachusetts . He subsequently became a See also:merchant in his native See also:city and See also:rose to a position of importance in its business and See also:political See also:life . His See also:chief See also:interest, however, was inthe temperance question, and he See also:early attracted See also:attention as an ardent See also:champion of the See also:prohibition of the See also:sale of intoxicating drinks . He drafted the drastic Maine prohibitory See also:law of 1851 . He was See also:mayor of Portland in 1851 and in 1855, and was a member of the Maine legislature in 1858-1859 . Early in the See also:Civil See also:War he became See also:colonel of the 13th Maine Volunteer See also:Infantry . He served in See also:General B . F . See also:Butler's New See also:Orleans expedition, was commissioned brigadier-general of See also:volunteers in See also:April 1862, and subsequently commanded for a See also:time the See also:department of See also:Florida . He was twice wounded in the attack on See also:Port See also:Hudson, on the 27th of May 1863, and was taken prisoner, remaining eight months in Libby and other prisons before he was exchanged . After the war he devoted a See also:great See also:part of his time and See also:energy to the See also:extension of the prohibition See also:movement in See also:America and See also:England .

Through his exertions the prohibitory See also:

amendment was added to the Maine constitution in 1884 . In 188o he was the See also:candidate of the See also:National Prohibition Party for See also:president, polling 10,305 votes . He died at Portland on the 2nd of See also:October 1897 . His Reminiscences were published at Portland in 1898 .

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