Mary Hunt

female, deceased (1906)
American temperance activist, Committee of Fifty, Prohibition, Temperance movement, DepartmentofScientificTemperanceInstruction, Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mary Hunt became one of the most powerful women in the United States temperance movement promoting Prohibition of alcohol. As Superintendent of the...

Edith Smith Davis

female
American temperance activist, Temperance movement, DepartmentofScientificTemperanceInstruction, Women's Christian Temperance Union, The Temperance Education Quarterly
Edith Smith Davis was a major leader in the temperance movement. She served as Superintendent of the Bureau of Scientific Investigation and the...
John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings

male, deceased (1913)
University of Pennsylvania, Miami University, United States Army officer, librarian, american civil war, from Indiana…national library of medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Committee of Fifty, Army of the Potomac, DepartmentofScientificTemperanceInstruction
John Shaw Billings was a librarian and surgeon and the moderniser of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the creator of...