1860’s cdv photo JS Gough Temperance advocate orator

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1860’s cdv photo of JB Gough. John Bartholomew Gough (August 22, 1817 - February 18, 1886) was a United States temperance orator. He had been a performer and a bookbinder. He fell on hard times and alcohol. He found temperance people, and after s struggle, became one himself. He became famous for his eloquence. An intense earnestness derived from experience, and his power of imitation and expression, enabled him to work on the sensibilities of his audiences. He was accustomed to mingle the pathetic and humorous in such a way as to attract thousands to hear him who had no purpose but to be interested and amused. In the first year of his travels, he spoke 386 times, and thenceforward for seventeen years he dealt only with temperance. During that period he addressed over 5,000 audiences.