Edward C. Delevan 3167760 208628037 2008-04-27T22:51:07Z Blazr6 6987778 Delavan's name was spelled with an "a" not an "e". '''Edward C. Delavan''' (1793-1871) was a wealthy businessman who devoted much of his fortune to promoting the [[temperance movement]]. He helped establish the American Temperance Union; attacked the use of wine in Christian communion; established a temperance hotel in Albany, New York; traveled to Europe to promote [[teetotalism]]; sent a copy of a temperance tract to every soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War (a million copies in all); and sponsored a series of periodicals. They included the ''Journal of the American Temperance Union'', the ''Temperance Recorder'', the ''American Temperance Intelligencer''; the ''Enquirer'', and the ''Prohibitionist''. Prohibition or dry towns in Illinois and Wisconsin were named in his honor. ==Sources== *[http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:gCbbjzY_JOUJ:www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/d/ecdelavananb.html+temperance+leader&hl=en American National Biography] *[http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1124913901.html Temperance Movement groups and Leaders in the U.S.] [[Category:American temperance activists|Delevan, Edward C.]] [[Category:American businesspeople|Delevan, Edward C.]] [[Category:People of the American Civil War|Delevan, Edward C.]]