Sons of Temperance badge

[Muddy Mike]

Found this on the family farm. Still in the family thanks to this hobby.:grin: Have some great permissions as soon as this snow stops irritating me, enough already.:whiteflag:

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Very cool find, Lucky it's still in such great shape, congrats!

 

[Muddy Mike]

Thanks cleaned up nicely

 

[Lodge Scent]

Cool badge. They never would have given one to me.

 

[Digger Don]

Very nice badge erfect10:

Congrats

 

[del]

Great badge Mike it held up well ! Have you researched that and when did it date from ?

 

[Muddy Mike]

Thanks for asking Del, I found out some interesting family history now because of this metal. It probably came from Ellen s Runden possibly being a women's member of the Sons of Temperance as she was living in the house at that time, or could have been her husband Magnus, cool name. One metal like it on the internet dated 1892. Her father was Rev. Elling Eielsen who was the first ordained Luthern minister of the gospel among the Norwegians in the United States. He passed in 1883 and more than likely was the one who picked up that 1786 2 reale that I found on the farm in his travels preaching. So being a preachers daughter she probably followed a straight and narrow path.:angelic: There's a small article on the web of the Rev. Eielsen that's very interesting about his travels. And i used to hate history:duh:

 

[del]

The original Temperance movement gained much popularity around the 1820's , I was very fortunate to find a button from that time frame

 

[Muddy Mike]

Very nice,You got to love the east coast. So much history.

 

[calabash digger]

awesome find congrats.

 

[Donnie B]

Awesome button!!!!

The original Temperance movement gained much popularity around the 1820's , I was very fortunate to find a button from that time frame