Sparks, Jared
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 10, 1789, in Willington, Conn. He was a unitarian cler-- gyman, pastor at Baltimore in 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard university in 1839-49, and president of Harvard university in 1849-53. He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part the author.
It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote: those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault;.
Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes and life: of each; and also Correspondence of the:
American Revolution. He died March 14, 1866, in Cambridge, Mass.
SPARKS, WILLIAM A. J., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1828, near Albany, N. Y. He was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1857 and 1858; and was a state senator in 1863 and 1864. He was a delegate to the national democratic convention at New York in 1868. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.