The Temperance Collection includes convention programs of the Lancaster County Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.); a history of the group from 1884-1959; Pennsylvania State W.C.T.U. function programs; and a minute book from the Bart Chapter. Included are handwritten notes on some of the conventions, pro-temperance booklets and newspapers (Moral Reformer and American Reformer), and miscellaneous addresses and articles. Of special interest is a booklet "Operation Interview" in which 36 prominent Lancastrians comment on the question, "Is social drinking necessary for success?", and a newspaper article reminiscing on the temperance movement in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Signers of petition: John Ottman, Rudy Herr, Jacob Collins, Gustavus Derr, Adam Hummer, Peter Hiestand, Benjamin Ament, Frederick Frey, H. Bitner, Henry Sauder, Amos B. Shuman, George G. Brush, George Overdorf.
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Signers of petition: J. H. Wittmer, William Parker, Rudolph H. Wissler, Henry E. Kline, C. Wittmer, John Miller, Jacob Wissler, John S. Mann, George Aman, Henry Kauffman, Jacob Hiestand, Christian Brenneman, David Bixler Jr., Abraham Hostetter.
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Signers of petition: John Lintner, Daniel Smith, Joseph Neff, [signature in German], George Shotz, John Dellit, Isaac Dickel, Henry Funk, John Denlinger, P. H. Lyne, John Wright, Abraham Peters.
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Signers of petition: John Denlinger, G. C. Hawthorn, Christian Herr, Jacob Witmer, A. B. Brenneman, Jacob Brenner, Andrew Shute, J. H. Martin, Michael Bender, John Lintner, Jacob K. Barr, Emanuel Herr.
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Signers of petition: Frederick Stoner, George Lutz, Jacob Staman, Henry Neff, John S. Mann, Barnherd Mann, Henry Schenck, George Overdorff, Frederick Stoner Sr., Henry Greenawalt, Christian Miller, Christian O. Herr, Levi Haverstick, Henry Wissler, Isaac Weaver, George S. Mann, Amos B. Shuman, John Witmer, Jacob G. Shuman.
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Signers of petition: John Bittz, Isaac Rohrer, Emanuel Kauffman, Jacob Habecker, Charles Bender, John Shue, Joseph H. Hess, George Frey, Thomas Lewis, James Childs, Adam Fry, Peter Manning.
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Signers of petition: Henry Kauffman, Abraham Seitz, John Denlinger, Henry Funk, Daniel Smith, Michael Bender, Jacob K. Shenk, John Landis, John Lintner, Jacob M. Frank, Christian Brubacher, John Lintner.
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Signers of petition: E. Hershey, [unknown signature], Adam Hummer, John Meisky, Abraham Hoober, Christian Funk, Hanry Aumand, Henry Ortman, Charles Shultz, Michael Sourbeer, John E. McDonald, [unknown signature], John Lehman Jr., Benjamin Lehman, John Lehman Sr., Adam Hess, Henry Siple.
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Signers of petition: John Livingston, John Roop, David A. Fleming, John D. Wilson, Enoch Passmore, B. F. Houston, John Bartley, J. G. Henderson, Philip Hathaway, John Myers, Jacob Umble, James H. Houston, James McCalley, Jonathan Hoar, Amos S. Henderson, C. Umble.
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