TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - American Civil War
KW - Temperance Movement
KW - ministers
KW - Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
KW - Jane Swisshelm (1815-84)
KW - Protestants
AU - Benjamin Franklin Haven
AB - A melodramatic Temperance tract that uses a fable to warn of the dangers of alcoholism.
C1 - 1860s-1910s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Bellefield Presbyterian Church; Swissvale; Wilkinsburg; Edgewood; Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf; Blair County; Altoona
C4 - Christian; Historical
CY - Swissvale, PA
LA - English
M3 - Novella
N2 - A melodramatic Temperance tract that uses a fable to warn of the dangers of alcoholism.
PB - Swissvale Publishing Company
PP - Swissvale, PA
PY - 1914
RN - According to the Federal census, Benjamin Haven (1857-unknown) was born in Pennsylvania and worked as a storeroom clerk for a manufacturing firm in Swissvale, Allegheny County. In a preface to his story of moral reform, he claims he himself was inspired as a boy in Swissvale on a visit by the town's namesake, abolitionist Jane Swisshelm, and more recently by the popular evangelist Billy Sunday while preaching in Pittsburgh.
EP - 31 p.
TI - An Imp of Hell; or, How J. B. Corn Hung the Crape on Swissvale
ER -