Word of Wisdom Chronology
Rough Draft, Clair Barrus
Originally serially published here.
-- Mar 05, 1623
[U.S. Religious History] The Virginia
colony enacted the first American temperance law. (1)
-- During 1814
[Sidney Rigdon] Solomon Spalding,
wife, & daughter move from Pittsburgh to Amity, Washington Co., operate a
"temperance" tavern (2)
-- During abt. 1817
[Joseph Smith] Smith, Sr. opens a
"cake and beer shop" in Palmyra, selling "gingerbread, pies,
boiled eggs, root-beer, and other like notions of traffic", and peddles
these on the street from a handcart during Independence Day celebrations and
military training days".... (3)
