Stedman Hanks had two passions in life: stopping the twin evils of liquor and slavery. He lived long enough to see one goal through, but not the other. Born in 1811, Hanks graduated from Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1840 when the First Congregational church of Lowell was outgrowing its building a group ...
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