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See also:GOUGH, See also:JOHN See also:BARTHOLOMEW (1817-1886) , See also:American See also:temperance orator, was See also:born at See also:Sandgate, See also:Kent, See also:England, on the 22nd of See also:August 1817. He was educated by his See also:mother, a schoolmistress, and at the See also:age of twelve was sent to the See also:United States to seek his See also:fortune. He lived for two years with See also:family See also:friends on a See also:farm in western New See also:York, and then entered a See also:book-bindery in New York See also:City to learn the See also:trade. There in 1833 his mother joined him, but after her See also:death in 1835 he See also:fell in with dissolute companions, and became a confirmed drunkard. He lost his position, and for several years supported himself as a ballad See also:singer and See also:story-See also:teller in the cheap theatres and See also:concert-halls of New York and other eastern cities. Even this means of livelihood was being closed to him, when in See also:Worcester, See also:Massachusetts, in 1842 he was induced to sign a temperance See also:pledge. After several lapses and a terrific struggle, he determined to devote his See also:life to lecturing in behalf of temperance reform. Gifted with remarkable See also:powers of pathos and of description, he was successful from the start, and was soon known and sought after throughout the entire See also:country, his appeals, which were directly See also:personal and emotional, being attended with extra-See also:ordinary responses. He continued his See also:work until the end of his life, made several See also:tours of England, where his American success was repeated, and died at his work, being stricken with See also:apoplexy on the lecture See also:platform at Frankford, See also:Pennsylvania, where he passed away two days later, on the 18th of See also:February 1886. He published an Autobiography (1846); Orations (1854); Temperance Addresses (187o) ; Temperance Lectures (1879); and See also:Sun-See also:light and See also:Shadow, or Gleanings from My Life Work (188o).
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