25 Facts About Carrie Nation

Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.

Carrie Nation was concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a corset and urged women not to wear them because of their harmful effects on vital organs.

Carrie Nation described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like", and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars.

Carrie Nation's father was a successful farmer, stock trader, and slaveholder of Irish descent.

Carrie Nation nursed wounded soldiers after a raid on Independence, Missouri.

Carrie Nation eventually settled on Holden, Missouri, and asked Moore to marry him.

Carrie Nation obtained a history degree and studied the influence of Greek philosophers on American politics.

Carrie Nation's name is on the roll of Columbia Methodist Church in West Columbia.

Carrie Nation lived at the hotel with her daughter, Charlien Gloyd, "Mother Gloyd", and David's daughter, Lola.

Carrie Nation's husband operated a saddle shop just southwest of this site.

Carrie Nation began her temperance work in Medicine Lodge by starting a local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and campaigning for the enforcement of Kansas' ban on the sale of liquor.

Dissatisfied with the results of her efforts, Carrie Nation began to pray to God for direction.

Carrie Nation continued her destructive ways in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record.

Carrie Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of stick pins in the shape of hatchets.

Carrie Nation published The Smasher's Mail, a biweekly newsletter, and The Hatchet, a newspaper.

Suspicious that President William McKinley was a secret drinker, Carrie Nation applauded his 1901 assassination because drinkers "got what they deserved".

Later in life Carrie Nation exploited her name by appearing in vaudeville in the United States and music halls in Great Britain.

One of a number of pre-World War I acts that "failed to click" with foreign audiences, Carrie Nation was struck by an egg thrown by an audience member during one 1909 music hall lecture at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties in Westminster, London.

In October 1909, various press outlets reported that Carrie Nation claimed to have invented an aeroplane.

Carrie Nation is buried in the southeastern side of Belton Cemetery in Belton, Missouri.

Nation's home in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, the Carrie Nation House, was bought by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1950s and was declared a US National Historic Landmark in 1976.

In July 2018 a life-size bronze statue of Carrie Nation was erected in front of the Eaton Hotel, the location of her raid in Wichita, Kansas.

Carrie Nation was known as "Mother Nature" for the charity and religious work she did.

In 1890, Carrie Nation founded a sewing circle in Medicine Lodge, Kansas to make clothing for the poor as well as prepare meals for them on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In 1901, Carrie Nation established a shelter for wives and children of alcoholics in Kansas City, Missouri.