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Spalding, Zephaniah Swift

soldier, sugar manufacturer, was born Sept. 2, 1837, at Warren, Ohio. He is the second son of the late Hon. Rufus Paine Spalding, a learned judge of the supreme court of Ohio. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has held various government positions and received from the French government the order of the Legion d'Honneur. He has large sugar interests in the Hawaiian Islands; and in 1896 was granted by the United States government a subsidy toward building and maintaining a cable from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.