Arthur H. Needham, Prohibitionist

From The Daily Gazette-Journal (Hastings, Nebraska), 18 Aug 1887, Page 1 --

PROHIBITIONISTS

THEIR WORK FINISHED 

They Complete Their Convention Work

 and Nominate a State Ticket— Judge 

O B Hewitt, of Hastings,

a Candidate

 

The Third Party's Ticket

     The result of the convention of prohibitionists of the state, held at Lincoln, was the adoption of a platform, the selection of a state central committee and the nomination of  a full state ticket. 

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 

     The state central committee selected is made up of the following named gentlemen, one from each county: 

. . . .

Custer — A H Needham 

. . . . 

Arthur Herrick Needham (1831-1921) was my great-grandfather on my father's maternal side.  I am finding prohibition (and temperance) on both sides of my father's ancestry.  I don't ever remember my paternal grandfather (my grandmother was deceased) drinking any alcohol, and neither do my cousins.  

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