Hawkins, John H. W.
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Birthname | John Henry Willis Hawkins | ||||
born on | 28 September 1797 at 06:00 (= 06:00 AM ) | ||||
Place | Baltimore, Maryland, 39n17, 76w37 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m76w37 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
American prohibitionist, a reformer known as the "Major-General of the Total Abstinence Army." A former drinker, he pledged total abstinence from alcohol on 12 June 1840. After 17 years of campaigning, he died on 26 August 1859 at age 61.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from a letter written by him as transcribed in Life of John H.W. Hawkins by William George Hawkin (E.P. Dutton, 1859), pages 403-404: "Monday morning, September the 28th [1857]; that is my birthday, when, if I should live, I shall be sixty years of age. Drink it [a toast] about six o'clock in the morning, as that was about the hour I came into this world of trial."
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (Prohibitionist)