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Keywords: Temperance
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Item 15764
Title: Hampden Youth Temperance Society Constitution, 1839
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1839-10-10
Location: Hampden
Media: Ink on paper
Item 7487
Title: Portland Association for Temperance bylaws, 1827
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1827
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 15765
Title: Note concerning temperance assignment
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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Item 52896
Address: 148-150 Free Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Use: Rooming House
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William Ladd, the Apostle of Peace
William Ladd of Minot, a former ship captain and cotton farmer, wanted to abolish slavery, believed in temperance and other causes, but even more passionately, he wanted nations to agree to international peace. He was the founder of the American Peace Society in 1828.
Exhibit
Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine
The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.
Exhibit
Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.