DOW, NEAL (1804-1897 ), American temperance reformer, was born at Portland, Me., March 20, 1804. He drafted the Maine prohibitory law of 1851. He was mayor of Portland, 1851, 1855, a member of the Maine legislature, 1858—J9, and in the Civil War colonel of the 13th Maine Volunteer Infantry.
He served in General B. F. Butler's New Orleans expedition, was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in April 1862, and commanded for a time the department of Florida. After the war he devoted a great part of his time to the extension of pro hibition in America and England. Through his exertions the pro hibitory amendment was added to the Maine Constitution in 1884. He died at Portland, Oct. 2, 1897.
His Reminiscences were published at Portland in 1898.