Eliza Daniel Stewart, born in 1816, was an early temperance movement leader. In 1872, she urged wives of "drunkards" to sue alcohol dealers and may have been the first proponent of what are now known as server liability laws. The next year she organized the first Womans Temperance League. In 1874 she played a prominent role in establishing the Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She visited the United Kingdom, where she helped organize the British Womans Temperance Association and the Scottish Christian Union. In 1895, Ms. Stewart was the keynote speaker at the World WCTU convention in London, England. A Temperance Movement (see definition of temperance) attempts to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or even prohibit its production and consumption entirely. ... The Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian womens organization in the US. Founded in Evanston, Illinois in 1874, its purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. ...
Rebecca Stewart was born in Gloucester Co., NJ circa 1778.
Stewart Nickell was born in Floyd Co., KY September 28, 1817.
Miss Stewart was born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, September 10, 1809, and was the daughter of Jacob Stewart, who was a native Virginian, and whose father was born in New Jersey.
One of the group of 18th-century women known as the bluestockings, she was a friend of Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, and Horace Walpole.
Eliza was due March 27, but due to her weight of...
SO WHAT DID BECOME OF OUR VERY OWN Eliza doolittle?; As Martine McCutcheon stars in the West End's My Fair Lady, we track down the [pounds]100a-week shop girl who fooled society into thinking she was a real aristocrat.
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