Sowden, W. H – Spalding, John Franklin
Sowden, W. H
congressman. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Sower, Christopher
physician, printer, was born in 1693 in Germany. In 1738 he issued a German almanac in Germantown, Pa., which was continued by his descendants until 1798. In 1739 he began the publication of a religious and secular journal; and in 1743 published a quarto edition of the Bible in German. He died Sept. 25, 1758, in Germantown, Pa.
Spaeth, Adolph
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Germany. He is a prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John's church from 1867; and the author of Die Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des Herrn Tische; Saarkörner; Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe the Deaconess; Liederlust; Faith and Life Represented by Luther; and Annotations on the Gospel according to St. John.
Spahr, Charles Barzillai
journalist, author, was born in 1860 in Ohio.
He is a political economist, associate editor of The Outlook from 1886; and the author of The Distribution of American Wealth.
Spaight, Richard D
soldier, congressman, governor, was born March 25, 1758, in New Berne, N. C. In 1781 he entered the house of commons of North Carolina; from 1782 to 1874 was a member of the continental congress, and also during the years 1785 and 1786. He was one of the delegates to form the constitution of the United States, to which his name is appended. He was a presidential elector in 1797; and in 1792 was again elected to the local legislature. He was the same year elected governor of North Carolina; and was a representative in congress from 1798 to 1801, after which he was elected to the state senate. He died Sept. 6, 1802, in New Berne, N. C.
Spaight, Richard Dobbs
JR., agriculturist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in 1796 in New Berne, N. C. He served four years in the North Carolina state legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1823 to 1825. He subsequently served ten years in the state senate. He was governor of North Carolina in 1835 and 1836. He died in November, 1850, in New Berne,. N. C.
Spalding, Albert Goodwill
merchant, was born Sept. 2, 1850, in Byron, Ill. He is the senior partner in the house of A. G. Spalding and Brothers, which corporation has a paid-up capital of three million dollars, with branch houses in New York, Philadelphia, and other cities; in all fourteen different branches. In 1895 he was elected president of the national board of trade of cycle manufacturers. He owns a sub-division of nearly one thousand acres just south of the city of Chicago. He is best known as the American baseball magnate.
Spalding, Benedict Joseph
clergyman, bishop, was born April 15, 1812, in Marion county, Ky. In 1847 he was called to the charge of the Cathedral church in Louisville, and was appointed vicar-general of the diocese. He died Aug. 4, 1868, in Louisville, Ky.
Spalding, Burleigh Folsom
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 3, 1853, in Craftsbury, Vt. He received his education a at the Lyndon Literary institute, and the Norwich university.
In 1882-84 he was superintendent of public instruction; and in 1883-87 was member of the capital commission of Dakota territory to select a location for the capital and construct buildings. In 1889 he was a member of the constitutional convention of North Dakota, and served on many important committees. He was a member of the joint commission of North and South Dakota as provided for by congress to divide property and archives of territory of Dakota between the two new states. He took an active part in the formation and organization of the new state; and has always been active in all matters of public interest and pertaining to public welfare. Since 1880 he has practiced law in Fargo, N. D., and is one of the foremost lawyers of the south. He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress.
Spalding, Catherine
first superior of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, was born Dec. 23, 1793, in Charles county, Md.
In 1819 she sent a colony of sisters to Bardstown, who established the Bethlehem Day school, and in 1820 St. Vincent convent was founded in Union county.
She opened St. Catherine's school in Scott county in 1823. It was afterward removed to Lexington, where it still exists, and is regarded as one of the community's most flourishing establishments. The Academy of the Presentation was opened in Louisville in 1831, of which Mother Spalding took personal charge. She died March 20, 1858, in Louisville, Ky.
Spalding, Charles Warren
civil engineer, genealogist, was born June 11, 1843, in Nashua, N. H. For eleven years he was connected with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad as civil engineer, land agent and secretary of the land department. He has been identified with various business enterprises; and he organized the firm of Spalding, Mitchell and Company, wholesale coal dealers, of which his son is now the senior member; and for many years he was president of a large banking institution. He was actively interested in the development of a large irrigation enterprise in Idaho, which company has constructed and is now operating one of the most complete and extensive systems of irrigating canals in the United States. In 1897 he published the Spalding Memorial.
Spalding, Eugene C
railroad president, was born Jan. 16, 1862. In 1889 he was elected president of the International Association of Accountants.
Spalding, George
soldier, educator, congressman, was born in 1837 in Scotland. During the civil war he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general. He was postmaster of Monroe from 1866 to 1870; special agent of the treasury department from 1871 to 1875; and elected mayor of Monroe, Mich., in 1876, and president of the board of education. In 1876 and in 1892 he was elected president. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Spalding, George Burley
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1835, in Montpelier, Vt. Since 1885 he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of New Hampshire in 1877; was a member of the state legislature, and chaplain of that body in 1877. He is the author of a number of works, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.
Spalding, Harriet Mabel
poet, was born Jan. 10, 1862, in Gloversville, N.
Y. In 1877 she graduated from the Albany Female academy, and won six gold medals in various branches of composition. She is the author of a volume of poems, and contributes both prose and verse to current publications.
Spalding, Henry Harmon
clergyman, missionary, was born Nov. 26, 1803, in Bath, N. Y. He was a missionary to the Indians for forty years in Oregon and Idaho. He crossed the Rocky mountains in 1836, the trail that Fremont followed six years later. He died Aug. 3, 1874, in Idaho.
Spalding, James A
physician, author, was born Aug. 20, 1846, in Portland, Maine. In 1870 he graduated from the medical department of Harvard university, and has practiced medicine in Portland ever since. He has made three voyages of study to Europe, and contributed valuable papers to medical publications.
He is the author of a standard work entitled The Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye.
Spalding, James Reed
journalist, author, was born Nov. 15, 1821, in Montpelier, Vt. He established the New York World in 1860. As a journalist his vigor and elegance have never been excelled by a writer on the city press. His published addresses are Spiritual Philosophy and Material Politics; and The True Idea of Female Education. He died Oct. 10, 1872, in Dover, N. H.
Spalding, James Walter
was born July 28, 1856, in Byron, Ill. In 1876 he established the well-known mercantile house of A. G. Spalding and Brothers of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, manufacturers and dealers in sporting goods.
Spalding, Jesse
lumber merchant, was born April 15, 1833, in Athens, Pa.
His purchase of timber lands in Wisconsin and Michigan to supply his mills have aggregated three hundred thousand acres; and he is considered one of the greatest lumber merchants in America. He built and equipped the barracks of Camp Douglas during the war; was a personal friend of Grant and gave counsel in many grave exigencies; and he presided at the unveiling of the Grant monument at Lincoln park, Chicago. He is a director in many large corporations of Chicago; was three years in the city council; and in 1881 was appointed collector of the port of Chicago.
Spalding, John Franklin
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Aug. 25, 1828, in Belgrade, Maine. In 1858 he was ordained priest, and in 1873 was consecrated bishop of Colorado. He is president of the college of St. John the Evangelist, which embraces the Denver Theological school, Wolfe Hall School for Girls, and Jarvis Hall School for Boys. He is the author of The Church and its Apostolic Ministry; Jesus Christ the Proof of Christianity; Manual of Prayers; The Threefold Ministry; and other works.