Neal Dow
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Neal Dow was an American Prohibition advocate and politician. Nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", Dow was born to a Quaker family in Portland, Maine. From a young a
Neal Dow House in Portland
Dow and his fellow temperance advocates saw alcohol as the cause of many of society's ills.
Portland's City Hall, site of the rum riot
13th Maine Infantry Regiment
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The 13th Maine Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment spent 1862–1864 in the Department of the Gulf and finished the war w
Neal Dow, former mayor of Portland, now commander of the 13th Maine.