November 21, 1867

Carrie Nation, who became a temperance advocate so fervent that she was known to smash with a hatchet any place that sold alcohol, married a doctor named Charles Gloyd. She did not know at the time they were married that Gloyd was an alcoholic, and she blamed his alcoholism for the fact that their only child, a girl, had a mental disability. He died a month after she left him.

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