Spofford, Ainsworth Rand – Sprague, John Titcomb
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
librarian, author, was born Sept. 12, 1825, in Gilmanton, N. H. He was the librarian of congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts. He is the author of Library of Choice Literature; and Library of Historical Characters.
Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Eliza-
BETH [PRESCOTT], author, poet, was born April 3, 1835, in Calais, Maine. She is a novelist and poet of Newburyport.
She is the author of Azarian; Sir Rohan's Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other Stories; New England Legends: The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark's, a story for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three Heroines of New England; The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About Authors: Poems; and In Titans' Garden, and Other Poems.
Spofford, Henry Martyn
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1821, in Gilmanton, N. H. In 1877 he was elected United States senator from Louisiana by the Nicholls legislature, but the senate admitted William P. Kellogg, who had been chosen by the rival, or Packard legislature. He was co-author of The Louisiana Magistrate and Parish Official Guide. He died Aug. 20, 1880, in Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
Spooner, Alden Jeremiah
author, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in Sag Harbor, N. Y. He was the originator in 1863 of the Long Island Historical society, and gave more than one thousand books and pamphlets as a nucleus for its library.
He edited, with notes and memoirs of the authors, Gabriel Furman's Notes, Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn; and Silas Wood's Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island. He died Aug. 2, 1881, in Hempstead, L. I., N. Y.
Spooner, Benjamin F
soldier, was born Oct. 27, 1828, in Mansfield, Ohio. At the beginning of the civil war he became lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Indiana regiment, with which he fought at Philippi and Laurel Hill, and he afterward held the same commission in the fifty-first Indiana, with which he was present at Shiloh and the siege of Corinth. He then resigned and returned home, but was soon made colonel of the eighty-third Indiana.
In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers. He died April 3, 1881, in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Spooner, Clapp
financier, was born June 11, 1824, in Fitzwilliam, N. H. When the Harnden Express company, with others, among them Phillips and Company's express, of which he was then part owner, determined to combine and incorporate the great system of the Adams Express company, he was one of the nine organizers of that company and has been identified with it ever since.
For many years one of its managers and superintendent of the New England division, he held the office of vice-president from 1887 until 1891, when he retired from active commercial life. He now devotes all of his time to the supervision, improvement and building up of his large tract of land, called Brooklawn park, the finest suburb of Bridgeport, Conn.
Spooner, Henry J
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1839, in Providence, R. I. He served in the union army as a commissioned officer from 1862 to 1865. He was admitted to the bar in the latter year, and engaged in the practice of law in his native city. He was a member of the state house of representatives from 1875 to 1881, serving as speaker the last two years. He was elected as a representative to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was reelected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Spooner, John Coit
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Jan. 6, 1843, in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
He was military and private secretary to Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin. He served as assistant attorney-general of Wisconsin from 1867 to 1870. In 1872 he was elected a representative in the Wisconsin legislature. He was a member of the board of regents of the Wisconsin university; and was elected United States senator from Wisconsin for the term of six years from March 4, 1885. In 1893 he moved to Madison. He received the election to the United States senate again in 1897.
Spooner, Lysander
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 19, 1808, in Athel, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston prominent as an abolitionist; and the author of Our Finances; The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defense for Fugitive Slaves; Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; and Poverty: Causes and Cure.
He died May 14, 1887, in Boston, Mass.
Spooner, Shearjashub
dentist, author, was born in 1809 in Brandon, Vt.
He was a dentist of New York City; and the author of Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects; and Anecdotes of Painters. He died in March, 1859, in Plainfield, N. J.
Spoonts, Morris A
lawyer, jurist, orator, was born Nov. 9, 1857, in Bell He was educated in the county, Texas. common schools of his native state; has become one of the foremost lawyers of Texas; and has a large practice in Fort Worth. He has been prosecuting attorney; judge of his county; president of the city council; and filled various other public positions of honor. For many years he has been attorney of the Union Pacific Railway company, and the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad company. He is prominent in public affairs and in politics, and has attained prominence as a brilliant orator.
Spotts, James Hanna
naval officer, was born March 11, 1822, in Fort Johnson, N. C. In 1881 he was promoted to rear admiral. He died March 8, 1882, in the Falkland Islands.
Sprague, Alfred White
chemist, author, was born June 17, 1821, in the Sandwich Islands. He is a Boston chemist who published Chemical Experiments; and Elements of Natural Philosophy.
Sprague, Charles
financier, author, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1791, in Boston, Mass. He was a cashier of the Globe bank, Boston, in 1825-65; and well known in his lifetime as a poet, and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841, the latest edition being that of 1876. He died Jan. 22, 1875, in Boston, Mass.
Sprague, Charles Ezra
author, was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Nassau, N. Y.
He is the secretary of the Dime Savings institution in New York city from 1878; and the author of Logical Symbolism; and Handbook of Volapük.
Sprague, Charles Franklin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 10, 1857, in Boston, Mass. In 1891 and 1892 he was in the Massachusetts house of representatives. In 1893 and 1894 he was a member of, and latterly chairman of, the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston. In 1895 and 1896 was a member of the Massachusetts senate; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Sprague, Charles James
poet, was born Jan. 16, 1823, in Boston, Mass.
For many years he was curator of botany in the Boston society of Natural History, and he is known among cryptogamists for his collection of lichens. He has contributed poems to journals and magazines, and has written articles for scientific papers.
Sprague, Frank Julian
inventor, was born July 25, 1857, in Milford, Conn.
He is the inventor of the Sprague electric motors.
Sprague, Homer Baxter
educator, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 19, 1829, in Sutton, Mass. He has attained success as an author, commentator, teacher, editor, lecturer, and soldier. He entered educational work early in life, became head master of the Girls' High school of Boston, Mass.; served with distinction as a representative in the Connecticut legislature; and was commissioned captain, major, lieutenant and colonel in the volunteer army. He was wounded in battle and brevetted for gallantry at Port Hudson, La. He then became professor in Cornell university; has been president of Mills college; president of the university of North Dakota; and professor at the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J. He has been annotator and editor of the masterpieces of the leading poets; and a successful lecturer on Shakespeare, Milton, Goldsmith and others. He is the author of the History of the Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers; of various addresses; and the founder of Martha's Vineyard Summer institute.
Sprague, John Titcomb
soldier, author, was born July 3, 1810, in Newburyport, Mass. He was an officer of the United States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865; and the author of Origin, etc., of the Florida War. He died Sept. 6, 1878, in New York city.