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See also:DOW, See also:NEAL (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
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler's New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans expedition, was commissioned brigadier-general of See also:volunteers in See also:April 1862, and subsequently commanded for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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.
End of Article: DOW, NEAL (1804-1897)
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