Spencer, James Grafton – Spitzka, Edward Charles
Spencer, James Grafton
farmer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1844, near Port Gibson, Miss. He entered Oakland college in 1861 and after passing the freshman class entered the confederate army as private in Cowan's battery of light artillery, serving until the close of the war in the army of Mississippi and Tennessee. He returned to his ancestral home and began farming, which he has followed since, living in the house in which he was born. In 1892 he was sent as representative to the state legislature, serving two sessions; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Spencer, James R
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Courtland county, N. Y. He was educated in the schools of Binghamton, N. Y.; and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He is a successful lawyer of Waukesha, Wis.; has been justice of the peace for the past sixteen years; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Spencer, Jesse Ames
clergyman, educator, author, was born June 17, 1816, in Hyde Park, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York in 1869- 83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic Truth; and Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86.
Spencer, John Canfield
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1787, in New York. In 1816 he was elected to congress from Canandaigua; in 1820 was elected to the state assembly; and in 1824 was elected to the state senate for four In 1832 he was again elected to years. the state assembly; and in 1839 was appointed secretary of state. In 1841 he was made secretary of war. He was a successful lawyer, and achieved his highest fame from his connection with the revision of the statutes of New York. He died May 18, 1855, in Albany, N. Y.
Spencer, Joseph
soldier, lawyer,. jurist, congressman, was born in 1714 in East Haddam, Conn. He was elected a member of the council in 1766; was appointed brigadier-general in the continental army in 1775; became major-general in 1776; was in the expedition against Rhode Island in 1778; and assisted in Sullivan's retreat. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1778 and 1779; and in 1780 was again elected to the council, and was annually re-elected until his death. He died Jan. 13, 1789, in East Haddam, Conn.
Spencer, Morton W
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 21, 1836, in Gilbert's Mills, N. Y. This eminent minister of the free baptist church is the author of The Missing Link, which is a history of cur Saxon race, containing one thousand historical and prophetic proofs of our Hebrew and Saxon ancestry.
Spencer, Platt Rogers
the originator of the Spencerian method of penmanship, was born Nov. 7, 1800, in East Fishkill, N. Y. He had given penmanship much attention from early youth, and was led to perfect his semi-angular system by seeing the necessity of a more rapid execution than the old round Roman method, and a more legible hand than the angular or German system. He died May 16, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio.
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Spencer, Roswell T
journalist, legislator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, in Bluffdale, Ill. He is the editor and owner of the Illinois State Center of Illiopolis; has been the vice president of the Illinois State Press association, and is a prominent member of the Masonic lodge.
Spencer, Samuel
railroad president, was born March 2, 1847, in Columbus, Ga. He is president of the Alabama Great Southern railroad; and of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railway; and is also president of numerous other corporations in New York city. SPENCER, MRS. SARA [ANDREWS], author, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in Savona, N. Y. She is a prominent woman suffragist of Washington; and proprietor of the Spencerian Business college. She is the author of Problems on the Woman Question; and Lessons in the English Language.
Spencer, Selden P
legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1862, in Erie, Pa. In 1895 he served as a member of the Missouri state legislature from St. Louis; and in 1897 became judge of the circuit court of St. Louis for a term of six years.
Spencer, Thomas
physician, educator, author, was born in 1793 in Great Barrington, Mass. He was a physician who was medical professor at Hobart college in 1835-57; and was the author of Lectures on Vital Chemistry; and Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. He died May 30, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Spencer, William B
congressman.
He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fourth congress.
Spencer, Mrs. William Loring
[NUNEZ], was born in 18-, in St. Augustine, Fla. She is the author of Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; and Calamity Jane.
Sperry, Lewis
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1848, in South Windsor, Conn. In 1869 he graduated from the Monson academy; and from the Amherst college in 1873.
In 1875 he was admitted to the bar, and practices law in Hartford. In 1876 he represented his native town in the Connecticut state legislature; and was coroner for Hartford county during 1883- 91. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat, and served during 1891-95. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Indianapolis sound money convention.
Sperry, Nehemiah D
was born July 10, 1827, in Woodbridge, Conn. He was elected a member of the common council in 1853; in 1854 was elected an alderman of the city; and was elected selectman of the town of New Haven in 1853. He was elected secretary of state in 1855; and was reelected in 1856. He was nominated postmaster in 1861 and continued in office until the first election of Grover Cleveland. He was nominated for postmaster and served until the re-election of President Cleveland, making in all twenty-eight years and two months. He was appointed a member of the commission to visit England, Ger many, and France to look into their system of postoffices, but declined service. He was president of the chamber of commerce of New Haven; was bondsman for building the Monitor; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress. as a republican.
Spicer, William Francis
naval officer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1820, in New York city. He was made commodore in 1877, and was commandant of the Boston navy-yard until his death. He was well known as a poet and musician, and was the author of several popular ballads, among which are Absent Friends and You, Mary. born
Spieker, George Frederick
clergyman, educator, author, was Nov. 17, 1844, in Elk Ridge, Md. Since 1883 he has been pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran congregation, Allentown, Pa. He has been professor of Hebrew in Muhlenberg college, Allentown, since 1887; president of its board of trustees since 1886; and examiner in doctrinal theology of the ministerium of Pennsylvania since 1882. He has published Hutter's Compend of Lutheran Theology, translated, with Dr. Henry E. Jacobs; and Wildenhahn's Martin Luther, translated from the German.
Spilman, Isaac R
civil engineer, lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1856, in Toulon, Ill. He received his education at the Ewing college, from which institution he graduated in 1880. He has been county surveyor and city attorney of DuQuoin, Ill., where he has attained prominence as an able lawyer.
Spink, S. L
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 20, 1831, in Whitehall, N. Y. In 1860 he moved to Illinois, and conducted the Prairie Beacon of Paris. He was elected to the state legislature in 1864; was appointed secretary of Dakota territory; and continued in office until 1869, when he was elected the delegate from Dakota to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Spinner, Francis Elias
soldier, financier, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1802, in Mohawk, N. Y. He held all the commissions, from the governors of New York, from a lieutenant to a major-general of the state artillery. He was county sheriff, and commissioner for building the state lunatic asylum; and from 1845 to 1849 was auditor in the naval office at New York. In 1854 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1861 he was appointed United States treasurer, and continued in the position until 1875. He died Dec. 31, 1890, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Spinola, Francis B
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born March 19, 1821, in Stony Brook, N.
Y. He served six years as member of the assembly of the state of New York, and four years as a senator. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, for meritorious conduct in recruiting and organizing a brigade of four regiments and accompanying them to the field. He was elected from New York to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
He died April 12, 1891, in Washington.
Spitzka, Edward Charles
physician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1852, in New York city. He is a physician of New York city eminent as a neurologist; and the author of Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment.