Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-23
TWO rEMpERANoE WORKERS.
somsthIng OF the Lives OF Two Wome
Now ut tho Camp Ground

somsthIng OF the Lives of Two Women
Now ut the Camp Ground.
The following interesting biographies
Fave been secured by the REGISTER OF
two of the most prominent women in
temperance work in the country. They
have been for several days and are now
at the Moundsville Camp ground, en-
gagged in their chosen work.
Caroline i. Buell. was born at MARI
boro, Mass. Oct. "a, 1S43, the daughter
OF q Methodist minister, and linea
descendent Of Nayfower stock on the
mothers side. Might be expected 70
have opinions and convictions. Add TO
this an 'investigating turn" keen per-
ceptions, and sound Judgment, and you
have the mental makeup OF the SUBJECT
of this sketch. She was married TO
Frederick Buell., young army officer,
10 1862. He died AZ the close OF the
war.
Putting aside grief and shattered
hopes and plans, she gave herself to the
work OF comforting others whose hearts
were aching; and to bringing up the
boy who was the pledge OF short and
happy welded life. Brought up TO total
abstinence, and associated with her
brother in the publication OF temper
ance PAPER she was abundantly qualified
for the position OF corresponding secre-
tary OF the State w. c. T. U. of Con-
necticut, whittier she had removed.
She continued in this Office for eleven
years. So devoted a constituency was
hers, that after she was elected TO the
Office OF National Corresponding Secre-
tary, they persisted In retaining her
name upon the roster of State officials.
In 1876 she was chosen chairman OF the
Publishing Committee of Our Union, the
organ OF the National Union. IN 1878
she was elected Assistant Recording
Secretary, and in 1850 Corresponding
Secretary Of the National Union.
During this time she originated the
plan Of the Loyal Temperance Legion,
first adopted by Connecticut and after
ward by the National Union; also the
system OF blanks for reports OF local
and Stats Unions.
She gave name to the School of Meth
cd, first christening the oneat Mt. Lake
Park, Nd, which she has conducted
ever since.
Always tolerant, she claimed the
same right TO do her own thinking that
she accorded TO others; and when poll
cies were advocated or adopted that she
regarded as menacing the safety or the
National Union, quietly and firmly she
stood her ground against them. Among
these was the management Of the Wo-
mans Temperance Publication Associa-
81. 81 ,oIa hOfh innnrtnrafpd
and neither under the control OF the
National Union. This brought upon
her the dspleasure OF the managers OF
both these incorporated interests, and
with a relentless zeal they set them
selves to remove Mrs. Buell. from office.
At the national conventin in 1898 her
official head was demanded. The price
had been paid and the sacrifice was
made In open convention. And thought
full white ribboners all over the nation
who love their national president, who
are faithful to the cause ana love The
work the Union was organized 10 do,
watch anxiously TO see the end. One
woman, not our chosen leader, holds her
hand upon the throttle. If the interests
of the temple or the W. T. p. A. demand
the sacrifice of woman, she must 90,
whether in State or national office.
Esther Pugh was rocked in the cradle
OF reform. In infancy she drew her
sustenance from q Quakeress OF Hugue-
not extraction. Her father was Quaker
and aboitIonist. He published the
PIiLdnthropiSt In Cincinnati In 1886, for
which he was mobbed and his office fix
lures destroyed, only 10 be at once re-
placed aud the crusade against slavery
renewed.
In early girhood Esher Pugh recog-
nized Gods claim upon her and Grown
ed Him Lord OF all'' her life. Taught
In early years by her mother, she after
ward finished her education in the Gin
cinnati High School, and devoted herself
to philanthropic aud religious work.
81 could not have been less than / am,
she is wont to say, with my heredltY
and early environment. ! deserve, and
take no credit" She went out with the
crusaders and after the organization OF
the w. C. T. u, worked with them. AT
her own cost she started State paper
for the use Of the Union as & medium
for temperance workers, but her
fathers ana mothers death within few
months OF each other necessitated
change OF plans that stopped the
paper. After this she filled the
various positions IS publisher and edi-
tor Of our Union, corresponding secre-
tary OF the w. C. T. L. OF Ohio and
State organizer during the constitution
al amendment campaign. In 1879 she
was elected treasurer of the National
Union and served for nine years with
out any compensation. During this
period she held other Offices OF trust In
her own State, Ohio, and when the Ma
tional asked all her time aud service
she accepted salary, and not until
then.
She found the treasury empty and
unpaid debts confronted her; bu; II was
not long until these were cancelled and
means evolved for repenishing and fur
nishing the sinews Of war.
Brave and frank, she was quick to
speak this dsspprovsl, and as the Ma
tional Union brauched out 10 its various
departments and stood sponsor for en-
terprises that threatened the organiLa-
ton with dangers seen and unseen,
Esther Pugh stood up 10 be counted a.
opposing them. Cliques and rings had
sprung into existence with the growth