DOW, LORENZO

(1777-1834), Amer. Methodist preacher. reformer, b. Portland, Maine. He received a Quaker education, became mayor of his home town, and served in the State legislature, where he acquired prominence as the father of the Maine prohibition law of 1851, which forbade the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. As a temperance advocate he traveled the country over on speaking tours, and also urged liquor restrictions in Canada and Great Britain. He took a distinctive part in the Civil War as commander of a regiment of Maine volunteers, and as a brigadier-general in charge of the fortifications at the mouth of the Mi i ippi and of the Department of Florida. In 1863 he was captured by the Confederates in an action at Port Hudson and held a prisoner for eight months. In 1880 he was Prohibition candidate for President.