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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.