Spalding, John Lancaster – Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry
Spalding, John Lancaster
bishop, author, poet, was born June 2, 1840, in Lebanon, Ky. He received his education in the Mt. St. Mary's college and the university of Louvain, Belgium. In 1863 he was ordained and attached to the cathedral in Louisville as assistant. In 1869 he organized a congregation of colored people and built for their use the church of St. Augustine, of which he was appointed pastor. chancellor of the diocese and secretary to the bishop. In 1873 he commenced missionary work in the parish of St. Michael's in New York city, and became noted as an eloquent preacher and lecturer.
When the diocese of Peoria was created in 1887 he was consecrated bishop, and his administration has been marked by energy and signal success. He is the author of Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People; and Lectures and Discourses. He is also a poet of rare genius; and the author of America, and Other Poems; The Poet's Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; and Songs, chiefly from the German.
He was soon after made
Spalding, Lyman
physician, author, was born June 5, 1775, in Cornish, N. H.
He was a physician at Portsmouth, N. H., subsequently of New York city; and was one of the early advocates of vaccination.
He was the author of Reflections on Fever; and Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods. He died Oct. 31, 1821, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Spalding, Martin John
bishop, author, was born May 23, 1810, in Lebanon, Ky. He was a Roman catholic archbishop of Baltimore, during 1864-72, and active as a controversialist. He was the author of Review of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky; and Miscellanea. His nephew, John Lancaster Spalding, wrote The Life of Martin John Spalding. He died in 1872 in Baltimore, Md.
Spalding, Rufus Paine
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 3, 1797, in West Tisbury, Mass. In 1839 he was elected to the Ohio legislature; was re-elected in 1841, and was speaker of the house. In 1849 he was elected a judge of the supreme court. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Aug. 27, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Spalding, Simon
soldier, was born Jan. 16, 1742, in Plainfield, Conn. He was a soldier in the revolutionary army, becoming a lieutenant in 1776, and being promoted to captain in 1778. In 1783 he moved to Shesequin, Bradford county, Pa., the upper part of the Wyoming settlement, where he rose through the various grades to general of militia. He died Jan. 24, 1814.
Spalding, Mrs. Susan Marr
poet, was born in 18-, in Maine. She is a poet of Philadelphia; and the author of The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems.
Spalding, Thomas
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1805 to 1806.
Spalding, Volney Morgan
educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. In 1873 he graduated from the university of Michigan, in which institution he fills the chair of botany. He is the author of An Introduction to Botany, and various papers on Plant Physiology, Forestry, and kindred subjects.
Spalding, Zephaniah Swift
soldier, sugar manufacturer, was born Sept. 2, 1837, at Warren, Ohio. He is the second son of the late Hon. Rufus Paine Spalding, a learned judge of the supreme court of Ohio. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has held various government positions and received from the French government the order of the Legion d'Honneur. He has large sugar interests in the Hawaiian Islands; and in 1896 was granted by the United States government a subsidy toward building and maintaining a cable from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
Spangler, David
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1837; and in 1844 was nominated by the whig party for governor of the state, but declined the nomination. He died Oct. 18, 1856, in Coshocton, Ohio.
Spangler, Henry T
educator, college president, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in Myerstown, Pa. In 1873 he graduated from the Ursinus college, of which institution he became professor of psychology in 1891, and president since 1893.
Spangler, Jacob
congressman, was born in 1768. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1813; and was again a representative in congress from 1816 to 1818. He was subsequently surveyor-general of the state. He died June 17, 1843, in York, Pa.
Sparhawk, Frances Campbell
author, philanthropist, was born in 1847 in Maine. She is a novelist and philanthropist of Newton, Mass.; and has written much in behalf of the Indian cause. She is the author of A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West's Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man's Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; and Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely.
Sparkman, Stephen Mellanc- Thon
lawyer, legislator, was born July 29, 1849, in Hernando county, Fla. He was educated in the common schools of Florida, and taught school for about three years for the purpose of assisting in his education. He read law under H. L.
Mitchell, now governor of Florida, and was admitted to practice in 1872; and has since practiced in the courts of the state and the United States. He was state attorney for the sixth judicial circuit for nine years, from 1878 to 1887; was member of the state and congressional committees from 1890 to 1892, when he was elected chairman, which posluon he now holds. He was tendered the circuit judgeship for the sixth judicial circuit of Florida by Governor Perry in 1888, and the position of associate judge on the supreme court bench in 1891 by Governor Fleming, both of which were declined. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress. a
Sparks, Andrew J
educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 10, 1848, in Lafayette county, Mo. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar; and is the editor and owner of the American School News of Higginsville, Mo.
Sparks, Jared
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 10, 1789, in Willington, Conn. He was a unitarian cler-- gyman, pastor at Baltimore in 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard university in 1839-49, and president of Harvard university in 1849-53. He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part the author.
It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote: those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault;.
Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes and life: of each; and also Correspondence of the:
American Revolution. He died March 14, 1866, in Cambridge, Mass.
Sparks, William a. J
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1828, near Albany, N. Y. He was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1857 and 1858; and was a state senator in 1863 and 1864. He was a delegate to the national democratic convention at New York in 1868. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Sparks, William Henry
lawyer, poet, was born Jan. 16, 1800, on St. Simon's Island, Ga. He was a Mississippi planter; after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans; and published Memories of Fifty Years. He was also a popular poet, his best known poems being Somebody's Darling; and The Dying Year. He died Jan. 13, 1882, in Marietta, Ga.
Spaulding, Chester Ward
farmer, state legislator, was born May 14, 1859, in Panton, Vt. In 1896 he represented his native city in the Vermont state legislature.
Spaulding, Edward
inventor, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in Milford, N. H. He has taken out about ten patents, the most notable of which is a magnetic and electric ear telephone for enabling the deaf to hear. Among his other inventions is a process for keeping cider sweet in any cli-- mate.
Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry
. financier, legislator, author, was born Feb. 24, 1809, in Summer Hill, N. Y. In 1834 he moved to Buffalo, N..
Y., and was mayor of that city in 1847..
In 1848 he was elected a member of the New York legisla-- ture; and the following year was made a member of congress,. and served that body six years. For four years he was on the committee of ways. and means; and was the author of the legal tender act. In 1853 he was elected treasurer of the state of New York. In 1852 he engaged in banking; and in 1864 organized the Farmers' and Mechanics' National bank of Buffalo, of which he was president until his death.
He took a great interest in genealogical history pertaining to the Spalding family, and erected a monument in Buffalo, N. Y., in honor of the nine Spaldings who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in 1897 in Buffalo, N. Y.