Encyclopedia > Washingtonian

  Article Content

Washingtonian

The Washingtonians were a temporance Group from early in the History of the United States. Helped many people recover from alcoholism until the Washingtonian's desire to influence other parts of society caused the group to disband. They were used as a model as what not to do by Alcoholics Anonymous and helped set the concepts of "Singleness of Purpose".


Washingtonian is a neologism for inhabitants of the United States - see Usian



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Reformed churches

... Australian Presbyterians. It is not to be confused with the much more conservative Presbyterian Church in Korea[?] (Kosin), whose seminary is not recognized by th ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 31 ms