Eva Maria Brown - Knowledge

222:. At first, she did not like the work, owing to the publicity it entailed, but she soon became familiar with the details of legislative routine. The universal courtesy shown her, and the assistance accorded by the members of the General Court, were important factors in her legislative successes. From 1898 to 1904, she passed a great deal of time during the legislative sessions, looking after the different bills affecting the liquor question, the Sunday laws, and other subjects. At the time, Brown held the distinction of being the only woman in 28: 571: 511: 461: 419: 363: 211:, in which she was attained the highest official positions. Her duties in Faxon's office were at first those of an assistant clerk. Her abilities, however, were soon recognized by Faxon and he promoted her to the position of chief clerk. In 1884, she became private secretary to Henry Munroe Faxon (1864-1949)'s (son of Henry H. Faxon). 226:

who was registered as legislative agent and counsel. The authority thus conferred entitled her to the privileges of conducting hearings before the various committees and of cross-examining witnesses. In 1896, she conducted one of the most important hearings ever held at the State House, when the bill

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The management of the Faxon Political Temperance Bureau was publicly transferred to Brown on March 22, 1902, although for several years previous to that date, she had been the director of Faxon's work. During his crusade in enforcing the liquor laws in his home city, Quincy, Faxon brought more than

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Brown was a director of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, serving upon all of its important committees. The served as clerk of the corporation, holding the position for many years, and resigning in 1901. She was a trustee of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, and a member of the

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The correspondence of the Faxon Political Temperance Bureau, of which Brown became the sole manager, was almost unlimited, and covered more phases of the reform than that of any other temperance society. She was in constant communication with municipal officers and citizens interested in the

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Laws of Massachusetts Relating to Intoxicating Liquors, Common Nuisances, Gaming, Innholders and Common Victuallers, Lord's Day, Penalties for Drunkenness, Etc: Also a Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court Concerning These

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Laws of Massachusetts relating to intoxicating liquors, common nuisances, gaming, innholders and common victuallers, Lord's day, penalties for drunkenness, etc. Also a digest of the Decisions of the Supreme judicial court concerning these

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She was made chief clerk of the Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment Campaign Committee in 1889, of which Colonel Edward H. Haskell, of Newton, was chair, having charge of the correspondence and the assignment of the speakers.

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500 cases before the courts, the testimony in nearly all of which, both in the upper and lower courts, was taken by Brown. This experience proved of inestimable value to her, and she took advantage of it in later years.

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Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut

157:, being signeil to the Third Maine Regiment and later transferred to the Seventeenth. The exposure and hardships of a soldier's life brought on disease, from which he died at 248: 200: 180: 628: 608: 504: 172:, where her daughter was educated. While a pupil at the high school in that city, Brown was a classmate of Harriet and Alice, the daughters of 187:, and for several terms, held the office of Chief Templar of that society. Soon after leaving the high school, she removed with her mother to 633: 184: 208: 643: 145:, December 27, 1856, being the only child of John and Matilda Jane (Mathews) Brown. When she was two years old, her parents moved to 199:

Brown's connection with the temperance movement in Massachusetts dated from the fall of 1878, when she first entered the employ of

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enforcement of the laws. Besides preparing and editing numerous circulars, pamphlets, and articles for the press, she compiled

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Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary H. (Mary Hannah); Elliott, Mary Elvira; Stimpson, Mary A.; Hoyt, Martha Seavey (1904).

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in her day who was registered as legislative agent and counsel, entitling her to conduct hearings before the various

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authorizing the payment to the State of the entire sum received as fees from liquor licenses was being considered.

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Early in life, Brown received fundamental training in temperance work. While a child, she became a member of a

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government committees and of cross-examining witnesses. Brown was the author of

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In Boston, on August 27, 1900, she married Bertraum Edwin Busteed (1869-1946).

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Eva Maria Brown died at Quincy, Massachusetts, February 12, 1917.

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