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316 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
On June 2d, 3d and 4th, in 1851, John B. Gough lectured in Sandusky
for three nights. He was probably the greatest temperance orator
for the next forty years after that.
On August 16, 1853, there was a meeting in favor of a prohibitory
law, addressed by Joseph Root, F. D. Parish and Homer Goodwin.
The Sandusky directory of 1855 shows for Horeb division of the
Sons of Temperance: A. W. Hendry, W. P.; Philander Gregg, W. A.;
W. K. Marshall, R. S.; J. Wintersteen, A. R. S.; and the lodge met at
No. 22 Jackson Street.
On August 18, 1851, Father Mathew made an address at the Catholic
Church.
On January 29, 1863, John B. Gough is advertised in the Register
to speak at Union Hall on the 9th of February.
On February 6, 1866, Judge Sebastian F. Taylor charged the grand
jury in Sandusky and made the statement that nine-tenths of the crime
that came before him was due to the liquor business.
On April 21, 1866, L. and T. Thompson organized the first Good
Templar lodge in Sandusky.
On August 24, 1866, there Avas a temperance convention at Milan,
with Good Templar lodges present from Milan, Norwalk, Huron and
Sandusky.
On April 4, 1867, at the Methodist Church, there was a temperance
meeting addressed by Judge Taylor, Reverend Mr. Farrar and Judge
Hendry.
January 2, 1872, a Good Templar lodge was organized at Castalia,
and shortly followed by lodges at Bloomingville and Huron.
In 1872 the Good Templar lodge met in Hubbard's Block.
On June 9, 1883, J. B. Finch spoke at the Presbyterian Church.
In August, 1893, L. Beauchamp lectured for a we,ek at the Presbyterian
Church. At that time a Good Templar lodge had been formed
in Sandusky in 1892, which had existed for more than tAventy years and
had more than 500 names on its roll. It first met in the Odd Fellows'
Temple, later in the hall noAV used by Wilcox as a carpet store, later in
the Maccabee Temple, and finally in the G. A. R. Hall.