Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — PASSING OF NEAL DOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PASSING OF NEAL DOW.

Brief Sketch of the Veteran Prohibitionist Leader’s Career. It was on the 20th of last March that the whole temperance world celebrated the ninety-third birthday of Gen. Nesl Dow, whose death is now recorded. For half a century previous he had held a unique place in the public eye and for sev-

enty years of his long life he had been a leader In temperance work. His first movement in this direction wm when he induced the town authorities or Portland, Me., where he was born, to abstain from ringing the old town bell at 11 and 4 o’clock for the citizens to take a drink. In 1851 the Maine Legislature, after years of Dow's bombardment, passed the famous prohibition law. f At 60 years of age he raised the Thirteenth Maine and led it to the front, was shot four times and landed in Libby prison. At an age when most men are dead he lectured all over the earth on temperance. Sixty-seven years ago lie was married and in 1880 he was the candidate for President on the prohibition ticket. Death was due to old age.

GEN. NEAL DOW.