Carrie (later “Carry”) A ... Nation: Retelling the Life (2001)—the most thorough Nation biography, and notably the only one written by a woman. She was not a “cranky, insane woman ...

Carry A. Nation addressing a crowd of college students on May 3, 1902. | Wystan, Wikipedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 Kansas had banned alcohol statewide in 1880, but the law was barely enforced.

according to the biography by Fran Grace, “Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life.” Gloyd died of alcohol-related causes only 16 months after their wedding, leaving her with a baby daughter and a ...

So when she met Charles Gloyd, an educated former Union Army doctor, she was thrilled at the opportunity for a new life, Fran Grace wrote in the biography, "Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life." ...

Carrie Amelia Moore became Carrie A. Nation when she married Wayne County Civil War veteran David Nation of the 69th Indiana. The name became Carry A Nation, which she took as a sign from God that ...

On this day in 1900, a hatchet-wielding Carrie Nation brought her campaign against alcohol to Wichita, Kansas, where she damaged the bar at the elegant Carey Hotel. Since the Kansas Constitution ...

Calls president "Beer-guzzling dutchman" Carrie Nation sharpened her hatchet on a Muskegon audience of between 2,000 and 3,000 at Lake Michigan Park yesterday afternoon. That she had missed her ...