American Temperance University
- American Temperance University
. [cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000083|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
The university's main building, Temperance Hall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now houses Harriman city government offices. The university's Bushrod W. James Hall of Domestic Science for Young Ladies, named for benefactor Bushrod Washington James, is now an inn [ [http://www.bushrodhall.com/history.htm Bushrod Hall Bed & Breakfast] ] ; it is included in the Cornstalk Heights Historic District.
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* [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=T012 Temperance] in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
*Furnas, J. C. "The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum." New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965.
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