Letter To The Bishops Of The Episcopal Church On The Adulteration Of Liquors, &c
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Letter To Governor King, Of N. Y.: An Appeal For Co-operation In The Temperance Reform
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Letter To Governor King, Of N. Y.: An Appeal For Co-operation In The Temperance Reform
Edward Cornelius Delavan, New York (State). Governor (1857-1858 : King)
Van Benthuysen, printer, 1857
Self-Help; Substance Abuse & Addictions; Alcoholism; Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcoholism; Temperance
Edward Cornelius Delavan was an American reformer and publisher. When the American Temperance Union appeared, he became chairman of the executive committee.
Background
Edward Cornelius Delavan was born in 1793 in Westchester County, New York, United States. Although named Edward Cornelius, he rarely used the “Edward. ” His father having died, at the age of eight he went to Albany with his mother, a brother, and two sisters.
Career
Delavan entered a printing-office in that place at the age of thirteen, worked there for several years, then went into his older brother’s hardware store. While in the hardware store he also engaged in selling wine, which proved very successful financially.
In 1814 he formed a partnership with his brother and shortly after went to Europe as purchasing agent for the firm.
Returning to America in 1816 he settled in New York City where he lived until 1825.
He then returned to Albany and dealt in real estate for the next five years. His speculations in that field added greatly to his already ample fortune.
By the time he had reached middle age he was convinced of the evils of alcohol and during the remainder of his life spent a considerable fortune for the temperance cause. With Dr. Eliphalet Nott he organized the New York State Temperance Society in 1829. The American Temperance Intelligencer, and the Temperance Recorder, both published at Albany, were virtually under his control, and with his own money he secured a large circulation, thus enabling his two papers to exert more influence than all other temperance journals then published.
In 1835 he engaged in a public discussion of the undesirability of alcoholic wines for use in church communion, and his arguments attracted wide attention. In the same year he published an article in the Albany Evening Journal stating that the Albany brewers were using filthy water for brewing. He was sued for libel, and other persons, gaining courage from the brewers, sued for contended damage in times past.
Delavan won the first case and the others dropped their suits. He had the entire proceedings of the trial printed for use as propaganda.
When the American Temperance Union was organized in 1836 he became chairman of the executive committee and donated $10, 000 to its funds.
In 1840 he secured a collection of drawings of the human stomach showing the evil effects of alcohol.
At a personal expense of $7, 000 he circulated in the state of New York 150, 000 of these colored and engraved plates.
In 1841 he began to publish the Enquirer, a small temperance journal. In 1843 he collected and edited a group of documents which had appeared in the public papers in relation to the drawings which he had published. In 1858 he presented to Union College, Schenectady, a deed of trust to a collection of shells and minerals valued at $10, 000. Later publications of Delavan’s include a pamphlet, Temperance of Wine Countries (1860), and a collection of articles, published in book form under the title, Temperance Essays (1865).
Achievements
Delavan organized the New York State Temperance Society.