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Article Title: Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln
Full Citation: Patricia C Gaster, “Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln,”
Nebraska History 91 (2010): 66-79
URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH2010GBSkinner.pdf
Date: 1/12/2016
Article Summary: From 1877 until well after 1900, Lincoln was the home of a vigorous temperance reform club
that was said to surpass “in point of numbers, influence, and power any temperance club known in this country.”
Cataloging Information:
Names: George B “Bishop” Skinner, John B Finch, Henry A Reynolds, David Butler, Harvey Wesley Hardy, A G
Wolfenbarger, William Jennings Bryan, J Sterling Morton, A L Bixby, Thomas J Merryman
Nebraska Place Names: Lincoln
Keywords: George B “Bishop” Skinner, John B Finch, Red Ribbon Club, temperance, prohibition, Women’s
Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Templars of Honor and Temperance, Slocumb Act (1881), saloon license
fee, McKenzie Reform Club of Omaha, Nebraska Non-Partisan Amendment League, woman suffrage, Anti-Saloon
League
Photographs / Images: George B Skinner, Red Ribbon pledge card from Nebraska City, John B Finch, program for
a Prohibition Party meeting in 1891 in Lincoln, Lincoln’s Centennial Opera House, Twelfth Street looking south
from O Street, Harvey Wesley Hardy, Andrew J Sawyer, Andrew G Wolfenbarger, advertisement for Skinner’s
Barn