The Temperance League In 1856 a Temperance League was started by the women of Austin who threatened to boycott any establishment where whiskey could be purchased. The women who signed this petition were: Adams, Amanda Adams, Hattie A. Allen, Almeda E. Allen, Eliza A. Allen, Emma Bemis, Eleanor Bemis, Sarah E. Benson, Cornelia Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Lois Colwell, Mary A. Cook, Jennett W. Decker, Mary Ann H. Everest, Maria M. Ferris, Harriet Griffith, Triphena Kimball, Emogene A. Leverich, Hannah E. McDaniels, Mary McKinley, Eliza A. Padden, Mary A. Revord, Naomi M. Sanford, Martha L. Smith, Eunice L. Tubbs, Elizabeth Wheat, Julia A. Wheeler, Lucy L. Vandegrift, Bettie M. Submitted by Kathy Pike, Oct. 2006