Edward C. Delevan

Edward C. Delevan

Edward C. Delavan (1793-1871) was a wealthy businessman who devoted much of his fortune to promoting the temperance movement. He helped establish the American Temperance Union; attacked the use of wine in Christian communion; established a temperance hotel in Albany, New York; traveled to Europe to promote teetotalism; sent a copy of a temperance tract to every soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War (a million copies in all); and sponsored a series of periodicals. They included the "Journal of the American Temperance Union", the "Temperance Recorder", the "American Temperance Intelligencer"; the "Enquirer", and the "Prohibitionist". Prohibition or dry towns in Illinois and Wisconsin were named in his honor.

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