Gough

gof, John Bartholomew, an American temperance lecturer. He was born at Sandgate, Kent, in England, in 1817 and died at Frankford, Pennsylvania, in 1886. He came to New York in 1829, but neglected his trade of bookbinding and took to drink. As a comic singer and teller of capital anecdotes he was in demand in the lowest groggeries of the city. In 1842 he took the pledge which, with a slight relapse, he kept for the rest of his life. He occupied the lecture platform for forty years. He was a most talented and eloquent speaker on the topic of temperance, ranking in platform ability with Spurgeon and Beecher.