IMAGE PROVIDED/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS THIS ILLUSTRATION, FROM FRANK LESLIE’S PUBLICATION, SHOWS THE OHIO LADIES WHO WERE THE PORTLAND TEMPERANCE WORKERS’ PRIMARY INSPIRATION, SINGING AND PRAYING BEFORE A SALOON IN EARLY 1874. THIS SCENE, SKETCHED BY S.B. MORTON, IS IN LOGAN, OHIO. Image provided/Library of Congress
The temperance movement, when it came to Portland in the early 1870s, really shouldn’t have taken anybody by surprise.
What was surprising, though, was the form it took when it…
