The badge was created by Francis Murphy, 1836–1907, who was a chief advocate of the temperance movement in the United States and abroad in his generation.
The movement emerged in the northeastern United States during the early 1870s and spread to Canada and Great Britain by the end of the decade.
In 1870, Murphy was imprisoned for violating the Maine Law, and when he was released, he began speaking against alcohol and became a leader in reform clubs.
[2] Murphy also worked with John Wanamaker of the WCTU in Philadelphia in 1877, and later traveled to Canada and then to the UK where he met Queen Victoria.
[1][3] From 1880 to 1882, the cause of abstinence was revived in Great Britain by the Gospel Temperance or Blue Ribbon movement, based in America.