1. Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to as Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.
31 Facts About Carrie Nation
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Carrie Nation was previously known by either her birth name, Carrie Moore and, after her first marriage in 1867, as Carrie Gloyd.
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Carrie Nation was known as "Mother Carrie Nation" for the charity and religious work she did.
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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.
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In 1901, Carrie Nation established a shelter for wives and children of alcoholics in Kansas City, Missouri.
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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.
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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.
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Carrie Nation's father was a successful farmer, stock trader, and slaveholder of Ulster Scot descent.
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Carrie Nation nursed wounded soldiers after a raid on Independence, Missouri.
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In 1865, Carrie Nation met Charles Gloyd, a young physician who had fought for the Union, who was a severe alcoholic.
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Carrie Nation eventually settled on Holden, Missouri, and asked Moore to marry him.
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Carrie Nation obtained a history degree and studied the influence of Greek philosophers on American politics.
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Carrie Nation's name is on the roll of Columbia Methodist Church in West Columbia.
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Carrie Nation lived at the hotel with her daughter, Charlien Gloyd, "Mother Gloyd", and David's daughter, Lola.
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Carrie Nation's husband operated a saddle shop just southwest of this site.
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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.
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Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction campaign in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record.
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Carrie Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of stick pins in the shape of hatchets.
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Carrie Nation published The Smasher's Mail, a biweekly newsletter, and The Hatchet, a newspaper.
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Later in life Carrie Nation exploited her name by appearing in vaudeville in the United States and music halls in Great Britain.
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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.
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In October 1909, various press outlets reported that Carrie Nation claimed to have invented an aeroplane.
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Carrie Nation would give her final speech on January 14,1911, when she had collapsed mid-way through, having previously suffered health problems.
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Carrie Nation fell into a coma and was taken to Evergreen Place Hospital, where she eventually died on June 9,1911.
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Carrie Nation was buried in the southeastern side of Belton Cemetery in Belton, Missouri.
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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.
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The play Carry Carrie Nation ran on Broadway and starred Esther Dale.
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Carrie Nation was portrayed by Valerie Buhagiar in Season 9 Episode 6 of the Canadian TV series Murdoch Mysteries.
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In "Bar Fights" of Comedy Central's Drunk History, Carrie Nation is portrayed by Vanessa Bayer.
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Carrie Nation was portrayed by Julia Murney in the original Off-Broadway production.
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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.