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Spalding, Benedict Joseph – Spalding, Lyman

Spalding, Benedict Joseph

clergyman, bishop, was born April 15, 1812, in Marion county, Ky. In 1847 he was called to the charge of the Cathedral church in Louisville, and was appointed vicar-general of the diocese. He died Aug. 4, 1868, in Louisville, Ky.

Spalding, Eugene C

railroad president, was born Jan. 16, 1862. In 1889 he was elected president of the International Association of Accountants.

Spalding, George

soldier, educator, congressman, was born in 1837 in Scotland. During the civil war he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general. He was postmaster of Monroe from 1866 to 1870; special agent of the treasury department from 1871 to 1875; and elected mayor of Monroe, Mich., in 1876, and president of the board of education. In 1876 and in 1892 he was elected president. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Spalding, George Burley

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1835, in Montpelier, Vt. Since 1885 he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of New Hampshire in 1877; was a member of the state legislature, and chaplain of that body in 1877. He is the author of a number of works, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.

Spalding, Harriet Mabel

poet, was born Jan. 10, 1862, in Gloversville, N.

Y. In 1877 she graduated from the Albany Female academy, and won six gold medals in various branches of composition. She is the author of a volume of poems, and contributes both prose and verse to current publications.

Spalding, Henry Harmon

clergyman, missionary, was born Nov. 26, 1803, in Bath, N. Y. He was a missionary to the Indians for forty years in Oregon and Idaho. He crossed the Rocky mountains in 1836, the trail that Fremont followed six years later. He died Aug. 3, 1874, in Idaho.

Spalding, James A

physician, author, was born Aug. 20, 1846, in Portland, Maine. In 1870 he graduated from the medical department of Harvard university, and has practiced medicine in Portland ever since. He has made three voyages of study to Europe, and contributed valuable papers to medical publications.

He is the author of a standard work entitled The Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye.

Spalding, James Reed

journalist, author, was born Nov. 15, 1821, in Montpelier, Vt. He established the New York World in 1860. As a journalist his vigor and elegance have never been excelled by a writer on the city press. His published addresses are Spiritual Philosophy and Material Politics; and The True Idea of Female Education. He died Oct. 10, 1872, in Dover, N. H.

Spalding, James Walter

was born July 28, 1856, in Byron, Ill. In 1876 he established the well-known mercantile house of A. G. Spalding and Brothers of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, manufacturers and dealers in sporting goods.

Spalding, John Franklin

clergyman, bishop, author, was born Aug. 25, 1828, in Belgrade, Maine. In 1858 he was ordained priest, and in 1873 was consecrated bishop of Colorado. He is president of the college of St. John the Evangelist, which embraces the Denver Theological school, Wolfe Hall School for Girls, and Jarvis Hall School for Boys. He is the author of The Church and its Apostolic Ministry; Jesus Christ the Proof of Christianity; Manual of Prayers; The Threefold Ministry; and other works.

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.