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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Female Union temperance Society. (search)
ted that $153 had been given for the suppression of the sale of intoxicating drinks, and if we have failed it is not our fault. . . . Let us hope for a law to do what we cannot do. The society revived with a moderate membership and held its own, encouraging temperance work and organizations, doing general charity and patriotic work until one by one the members were called to Come up higher. Mrs. James O. Curtis continued her work, generally as an officer, until her death in 1858. Mrs. Ruth Osgood died in 1869. She is spoken of as Our oldest member and one of the first to put her name to the Constitution. Mrs. Samuel Joyce and Mrs. Ira Barker were charter members and continued in active service as long as the society existed. Mrs. Joyce was elected president in 1856 and held the position for over forty years. In March, 1874, her birthday was celebrated for the first time by the society, and thereafter, every year while she was able to receive her friends, the occasion was a ga