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Spalding, Charles Warren

civil engineer, genealogist, was born June 11, 1843, in Nashua, N. H. For eleven years he was connected with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad as civil engineer, land agent and secretary of the land department. He has been identified with various business enterprises; and he organized the firm of Spalding, Mitchell and Company, wholesale coal dealers, of which his son is now the senior member; and for many years he was president of a large banking institution. He was actively interested in the development of a large irrigation enterprise in Idaho, which company has constructed and is now operating one of the most complete and extensive systems of irrigating canals in the United States. In 1897 he published the Spalding Memorial.