Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois 22 February 1842. by Abraham Lincoln Although the temperance cause has been in progress for near twenty years,

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Second Lieut. Bill Wilson didn’t think twice when the first butler he had ever seen offered him a drink. The 22-year-old soldier didn’t think about how alcohol had destroyed his

A printer in Cornwall, NY, named Edward Blackwell, had been highly recommended to Bill Wilson. Blackwell was the President of Cornwall Press. So Bill and Hank Parkhurst (author of the

On a Friday night, September 17, 1954, Bill Dotson died in Akron, Ohio. “That is, people say he died, but he really didn’t,” wrote Bill Wilson. “His spirit and works

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