Sprague, John Wilson – Spring, Samuel
Sprague, John Wilson
soldier, merchant, banker, was born April 4, 1817, in White Creek, N. Y. He was made a captain in the seventh Ohio volunteers at the beginning of the civil war, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864, receiving the brevet of majorgeneral United States volunteers in 1865. He was engaged in various enterprises, and was for five years president of the National bank in Tacoma, Washington territory. +
Sprague, Levi L
educator, author, was born Dec. 23, 1844, in Beekman, N. Y.
He is the author of Theoretical and Practical Bookkeeping; and A Practical Speller.
Sprague, Mary Aplin
author, was born in 1849 in Ohio. She is a novelist of Newark, Ohio; and the author of An Earnest Trifler.
Sprague, Nathan Turner
banker, state senator, was born June 22, 1828, in Mount Holly, Vt. In 1883 he established the Sprague National bank of Brooklyn, of which he is president, and in 1886 the City Savings bank of Brooklyn. He has been a member of the Vermont legislature for several terms, was elected a state senator in 1872, and has been a colonel on the Vermont military staff.
Sprague, Peleg
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1756. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1799. He died in 1800.
Sprague, Peleg
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, author, was born April 27, 1793, in Duxbury, Mass. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1821 and 1822; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1825 to 1829. He was a senator in -congress from 1829 to 1835. In 1841 he was appointed judge of the district court of the United States for Massachusetts; and in 1841 was also a presidential elector. He was the author of Speeches and Addresses; and Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases. He died Oct. 13, 1880, in Boston, Mass.
Sprague, William
state legislator, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 3, 1799, in Providence, R. 1. He was elected to the general assembly; and in 1832 was chosen speaker of the house. In 1835 he was elected a representative in congress from Rhode Island. He was governor of Rhode Island in 1838 and 1839; and in 1842 was elected to the United States senate, serving two years. In 1849 he was a presidential elector; and was a member of the state assembly at the time of his death.
He died Oct. 19, 1856, in Providence, R. I.
Sprague, William
congressman, was born in Rhode Island. He moved to Michigan, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851. He died about 1853.
Sprague, William
soldier, manufacturer, banker, governor, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 12, 1830, in Cranston, R. I. In 1861 he was elected governor of Rhode Island. In 1862 he was elected a senator in congress "from Rhode Island for the term ending in 11869. He was re-elected to the senate in
Sprague, William Buell
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in Andover, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to a Daughter; The Daughter's Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr Griffin; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to European Celebrities; Life of Jedediah Morse; and Aids to Early Religion. He died May 7, 1876, in Flushing, N. Y.
Sprague, William P
merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born May 21, 1827, in Morgan county, Ohio. He was president of the First National bank of McConnellsville, Ohio; was a member of the state senate of Ohio in 1860 and 1862; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.
Spread, Henry Fenton
artist, was born Oct. 21, 1844, in Ireland. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1871, and became its professor of drawing and painting. He left the institute to make a two years' tour in Italy, and on his return founded Spread's Art academy. Among his works are Chicago Rising from Her Ashes; and Sad News.
Sprecher, Samuel
clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 28, 1810, in Hagerstown, Md. He is a lutheran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg seminary at Springfield, Ohio, in 1849-74, and author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.
Spreckels, John Diedrich
merchant, was born Aug. 16, 1853, in Charleston, S. C. In 1880 he founded the house now known as the J. D. Spreckels and Brothers company, capital $2,000,000, to engage in trade with the Hawaiian Islands, beginning operations with the little two hundred ton schooner Rosario. In 1887 he established the Spreckels Brothers Commercial company at San Diego, and built one of the finest wharves, coal depots and warehouses there on the Pacific coast. He is president of the company.
Spreng, Samuel P
clergyman, editor, author, was born Feb. 11, 1853, in Wayne county, Ohio. He received his education in the Northwestern college of Naperville, Ill. In 1876 he was licensed to preach in the Evangelical association; and in 1883 was elected presiding elder and fraternal delegate to the general conference of the united brethren church. Since 1887 he has been editor of The Evangelical Messenger of Cleveland, Ohio; and was one of the editors of The Standard Dictionary. In 1893-95 he was the president of the Missionary society; and since 1895 has been president of the Young People's alliance. He is the author of the History of the Evangelical Association; Rays of Light; Life of Bishop John Seybert, and other works.
Sprigg, James C
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was elected a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1841 to 1843.
Sprigg, Michael C
state legislator, congressman. He was frequently a member of the Maryland legislature; and was at one time president of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. He was a presidential elector in 1820; and was a representative in congress from 1827 to 1831. He died in December, 1845, in Cumberland, Md.
Sprigg, Richard
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1796 to 1799, and from 1801 to 1802.
Sprigg, Samuel
governor, was born in Maryland. He was elected governor of that state in 1819, remaining in office until 1822.
Sprigg, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1793 to 1796.
Sprigg, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Michigan; and in 1806 was transferred to the same position in Orleans. In 1812 he was transferred to Louisiana; and in 1813 to the territory of Illinois. On the admission of Missouri into the union as a state he received the appointment of district judge for that state.
Spriggs, John Thomas
lawyer, congressman, was born April 5, 1826, in England. He was elected district attorney of New York in 1853; and county treasurer in 1856. He was elected mayor of the city of Utica in 1868, and again in 1880.
He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat,
Spring, Edward Adolphus
sculptor, was born Aug. 26, 1837, in New York city. In 1868 he discovered at Eagleswood, N. J., a fine modeling clay, peculiarly suited to terra-cotta work, and in 1877 he established at Perth Amboy the Eagleswood Art Pottery. At the National academy he exhibited a bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in 1873, and several terra-cotta pieces in 1878. Since 1880 he has been director of the Chautauqua school of sculpture.
Spring, Gardiner
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1785, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick church in 1810-73; and the author of Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; The Mercy Seat. He died Aug. 18, 1873, in New York city.
Spring, Leverett Wilson
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1840 in Vermont. He is a congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the university of Kansas in 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams college from 1886. He is the author of History of Kansas; and Mark Hopkins:
Teacher.
Spring, Louis Gardiner
clergyman, was born Feb. 13, 1858, in Weathersfield, Ill. He received his education at the York college of Nebraska, and at the Maclay College of Theology. He has attained success as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate at Garden Grove, Cal.
Spring, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1746, in Northbridge, Mass. In 1775 he became a chaplain in the army. In 1799 he aided in founding the Massachusetts Missionary society, of which he was president. He published twenty-five miscellaneous discourses; and a number of controversial works. He died March 4, 1819, in Newburyport, Mass.