2 Quotes & Sayings By Carry A Nation
Carry A. Nation was born in Ohio, November 9th, 1846. She was educated in the district schools and at various times attended elementary school, at Oberlin College where she took a course of study in science, at the State Normal College at Berea, Ohio, and at Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1875 she married Moses Smith, a minister affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church
In 1877 she joined the Universalist church and from that time on devoted her energies to the cause of temperance, which she believed to be the foundation of all reforms. She became a student of James J. Ingalls who was one of the foremost advocates of the cause of prohibition.
Upon his death in 1890 she became president of the national prohibition league and devoted her life to this cause for thirteen years thereafter. Miss Nation advocated general prohibition by any and all methods, general education for children as a means for preventing drunkenness, confiscation of all liquor as a means of freedom from temptation, and by physical force as a means of securing obedience to law as it affected her own personal desires. Her writing on temperance is world-wide known and reads like a thrilling page from History itself.