by GeoffS » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:50 pm
Slightly early, because I'm overseas next week.
OCTOBER
1872
Jerry McAuley opened the Water St Mission in the notorious Fourth Ward of NYC. It marked the beginning of the urban mission movement. The movement, which spread across America by the Salvation Army, focused its message to the Skid Row alcoholic. When McAuley passed away (in 1884) S H Hadley succeeded him. Hadley’s example of recovery from alcoholism was cited in William James’ book The Varieties of Religious Experience. Hadley’s son, Harry, later collaborated with Rev Sam Shoemaker to establish a rescue mission at Calvary Episcopal Church in NYC
1881
Oct 29, Rowland Hazard was born, the oldest son of Rowland Gibson and Mary Pierrepont Bushnell Hazard
1904
Oct 15, Margaret (Marty) Mann was born in Chicago, IL to Lillian Christy and William Henry Mann.
1906
Oct, while on a picnic, Bill W, and his sister Dorothy, were informed by their mother that their father had gone for good. The news was devastating to Bill. Emily left the next day for Boston, MA to attend an osteopathic medical school.
1917
Oct 12, Henrietta Buckler and J Frederick Sieberling were married in Akron, OH.
1919
Oct, Congress passed the Volstead Act (National Prohibition Act) over President Wilson’s veto
1928
Oct 20, Bill W signed a pledge in the family Bible: “To my beloved wife that has endured so much, let this stand as evidence to you that I have finished with drink forever.â€
