Edward Page Gaston (November 19, 1868 – 1956), FRGS, was an American journalist, lecturer, and temperance activist from Harvey, Illinois.
[5] Gaston excavated and surveyed prehistoric ruins and cliff-dwellings in Arizona and New Mexico with the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition (1888), living among Zuni (1893).
He was founder and the U.S. director of the World Prohibition Federation; founder and honorary secretary of the International Prohibition Confederation, London, 1909;[2] as well as a spokesman for approximately 100 temperance societies, including the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League.
[6] He also formed and led an organization known as the New Vigilantes whose purpose was to "challenge the power of the gangsters of New York and throughout the country ... and to place hundreds of them, as well as corrupt public and police officials, behind the bars.
[9] He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; as well as the founder and honorary secretary of the International Prohibition Confederation, London, 1909.