Author: Dow, Neal (General),
Title: The Reminiscences of Neal Dow: recollections of eighty years.
Description: Portland, ME, Evening Express Pub Co, (1898). Fine. The Neal Dow Memorial, Portland, was the lifelong home of Neal Dow, one of the great men of the reform movement of the 19th. century. The late Federal-style mansion was built in 1829 for Neal and his wife, Maria Cornelia Durant Maynard at an initial costs of $6,000. It was a center of political and humanitarian activity and from here the zealous reformer set out on countless journeys through Maine, over much of the nation and finally abroad in the cause of temperance. In his youth, Portland had been a center of the rum trade with the West Indies. Local liquor outlets abounded. The resulting poverty, suffering, and disorder stirred him to action. His prosperity was derived from the sobriety, industry and frugality of his Quaker heritage. He drafted the so-called Main Law, that made Maine in 1851 the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and was the model for legislation in other states and foreign countries. After his death his house was willed by his son to the Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Brown binding, gilt pictorial of Dow at his desk on front cover, black lettering, gilt lettering on spine. Laid in pamphlet on the occasion of his house being designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Govt. with photo of his house and brief description of it and his life.

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