With the assistance of two recent Yankee settlers, Thomas and Nelson Olin, the first temperance society formed in Green Bay in 1835. This article, based on the memories of an old city resident, suggests that the temperance movement began in response to the carousing of young soldiers at nearby Fort Howard.
"Green Bay Badger Cradle of Temperance Movement." Green Bay Press Gazette (25 May 1921).
Online facsimile at:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1288;
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Green Bay Badger Cradle of Temperance Movement
