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Carrie Nation

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People's recollections of Carrie Nation range from a female evangelical prophetess, to raving lunatic. Carry Amelia Moore was born into a family that operated a sharecropping plantation, that was in central Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. As a young woman she was unusually tall and not very pretty. She married a young man who, she discovered, was a free mason, a smoker, and an alcoholic. He left her at the age of twenty-one, and from then on she vowed to fight the demon liquor that had taken her man from her. She re-married, with several other women in her community, helped to form the Wormen's Christian Temperance Union, which is still in existence today. Yet Nation now took her crusade a step further, beginning a campaign of "hatchetation". Over the course of ten years, she led groups of women into saloons, wielding an ax, and smashed each place to bits. She made headlines all over the country, and was even the subject of at least four short films, where she was often portrayed in a comic light, by a male actor in women's clothes. Her fame soon got the better of her and she soon drifted into obscurity. She died in a mental health facility on Friday, June 9th, 1911, never living to see the result of her cause: the 18th Ammendment. Several years after the enactment of Prohibition, it was reported that an illegal liquor still has been discovered, on the grounds of Carry Nation's birthplace.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kieran Kenney

Officially changed her name to Carry A. Nation.
She become a mother, when her only child, a daughter, Charlien, was born on September 27, 1868. Charlien's life ended on June 10, 1929.
Helped to form the Women's Christian Temperance Union, a group of reformers who later brought about the 18th Ammendment, (of prohibiting alcohol) to the United States' constitution, which outlawed alcohol, through Prohibition Act.
Arrested 30 times, between 1900 and 1910 for destroying saloons, with a hatchet, throughout the U.S. in a radical act to bring about reform. She was always arrested and released after one night in jail.
She was pregnant for 5 months with Charlien, when her first husband and Charlien's father, Dr. Charles Gloyd died, in May of 1868.

My strength was that of a giant! I tell you ladies, you don't know how good it feels till you begin to smash, smash, smash!
The tobacco user can never father a healthy child.
I believe that, on the whole, tobacco has done more harm that intoxicating drinks. The tobacco habit is followed by thirst for drink. The face of the smoker has lost the scintillations of intellect and soul. The odor of the person is vile, his blood poisoned.

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