Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson

August 24, 1816 (age 89)

Hillsboro, Ohio, United States

These direct, non-violent “Visitation Bands” were successful and quickly spread first across the state of Ohio and then to a total of 22 other states from New York to California. Doctor Lewis, a minister who had a drunken father which contributed to his desire for temperance and abstinence, believed that women needed to be educated on the social evils of alcohol. "Mother Thompson" and others claimed often dramatic conversions by saloon keepers. In other cases, the retailers simply gave up after being picked on for weeks by the Visitation Bands. Within several years the movement subsided. However, it was successful in stimulating the temperance movement, which had declined with the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865). The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traces its origins to the Women's Crusade against alcohol.

Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson

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Background

Thompson, Eliza Jane Trimble was born on August 24, 1816 in Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. Daughter of ex-Governor Allen Trimble of Ohio.

Education

When Ohio crusade against rum was contemplated, 1873, Mistress Thompson and Mistress McDowell (wife of General McDowell) led the 1st praying band in the streets of Hillsboro, O., Mistress Thompson making the 1st prayer in a Hillsboro saloon. Is, therefore, known as The Mother of the Crusade.

Career

These direct, non-violent “Visitation Bands” were successful and quickly spread first across the state of Ohio and then to a total of 22 other states from New York to California. Doctor Lewis, a minister who had a drunken father which contributed to his desire for temperance and abstinence, believed that women needed to be educated on the social evils of alcohol. "Mother Thompson" and others claimed often dramatic conversions by saloon keepers.

In other cases, the retailers simply gave up after being picked on for weeks by the Visitation Bands.

Within several years the movement subsided. However, it was successful in stimulating the temperance movement, which had declined with the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865).

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traces its origins to the Women's Crusade against alcohol.

Achievements

Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson has been listed as a notable temperance crusader, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advisory council, World’s Congress of Representative Women, 1893.

Connections

Married Honorary.

Spouse:: Honorary

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