Spangler, Jacob
congressman, was born in 1768. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1813; and was again a representative in congress from 1816 to 1818. He was subsequently surveyor-general of the state. He died June 17, 1843, in York, Pa.
SPARHAWK, FRANCES CAMPBELL, author, philanthropist, was born in 1847 in Maine. She is a novelist and philanthropist of Newton, Mass.; and has written much in behalf of the Indian cause. She is the author of A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West's Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man's Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; and Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely. SPARKMAN, STEPHEN MELLANC- THON, lawyer, legislator, was born July 29, 1849, in Hernando county, Fla. He was educated in the common schools of Florida, and taught school for about three years for the purpose of assisting in his education. He read law under H. L.
Mitchell, now governor of Florida, and was admitted to practice in 1872; and has since practiced in the courts of the state and the United States. He was state attorney for the sixth judicial circuit for nine years, from 1878 to 1887; was member of the state and congressional committees from 1890 to 1892, when he was elected chairman, which posluon he now holds. He was tendered the circuit judgeship for the sixth judicial circuit of Florida by Governor Perry in 1888, and the position of associate judge on the supreme court bench in 1891 by Governor Fleming, both of which were declined. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress. a