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Spalding, Martin John

bishop, author, was born May 23, 1810, in Lebanon, Ky. He was a Roman catholic archbishop of Baltimore, during 1864-72, and active as a controversialist. He was the author of Review of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky; and Miscellanea. His nephew, John Lancaster Spalding, wrote The Life of Martin John Spalding. He died in 1872 in Baltimore, Md.

Spalding, Rufus Paine

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 3, 1797, in West Tisbury, Mass. In 1839 he was elected to the Ohio legislature; was re-elected in 1841, and was speaker of the house. In 1849 he was elected a judge of the supreme court. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Aug. 27, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Spalding, Simon

soldier, was born Jan. 16, 1742, in Plainfield, Conn. He was a soldier in the revolutionary army, becoming a lieutenant in 1776, and being promoted to captain in 1778. In 1783 he moved to Shesequin, Bradford county, Pa., the upper part of the Wyoming settlement, where he rose through the various grades to general of militia. He died Jan. 24, 1814.

Spalding, Mrs. Susan Marr

poet, was born in 18-, in Maine. She is a poet of Philadelphia; and the author of The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems.

Spalding, Thomas

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1805 to 1806.

Spalding, Volney Morgan

educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. In 1873 he graduated from the university of Michigan, in which institution he fills the chair of botany. He is the author of An Introduction to Botany, and various papers on Plant Physiology, Forestry, and kindred subjects.

Spangler, David

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1837; and in 1844 was nominated by the whig party for governor of the state, but declined the nomination. He died Oct. 18, 1856, in Coshocton, Ohio.

Spangler, Henry T

educator, college president, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in Myerstown, Pa. In 1873 he graduated from the Ursinus college, of which institution he became professor of psychology in 1891, and president since 1893.

Sparks, Andrew J

educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 10, 1848, in Lafayette county, Mo. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar; and is the editor and owner of the American School News of Higginsville, Mo.

Sparks, William Henry

lawyer, poet, was born Jan. 16, 1800, on St. Simon's Island, Ga. He was a Mississippi planter; after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans; and published Memories of Fifty Years. He was also a popular poet, his best known poems being Somebody's Darling; and The Dying Year. He died Jan. 13, 1882, in Marietta, Ga.

Spaulding, Chester Ward

farmer, state legislator, was born May 14, 1859, in Panton, Vt. In 1896 he represented his native city in the Vermont state legislature.

Spaulding, Erastus

physician, state legislator, was born July 1, 1818, in Tompkins county, N. Y. In 1845 he moved to Michigan; for a quarter of a century practiced medicine in Oakland county; and in 1867 was a representative in the state legislature. Since 1879 he has practiced his profession in Grand Rapids.