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Spaulding, Henry Foster – Spears, William T

Spaulding, Henry Foster

merchant, was born April 26, 1816, in Brandon, Vt. He was engaged in the commission business under the style of Spaulding, Swift and Company; and for eight years was president of the Central Trust company. He died July 17, 1893, in Riverdaleon-the-Hudson, N. Y.

Spaulding, Henry George

clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1837 in Massachusetts. He is a unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later Heroes of Israel; and Forty Hymns and their Authors.

Spaulding, Justin

missionary, was born in 1802 in Moretown, Vt. After filling a number of appointments, he was selected in 1836 as missionary to Brazil, where he labored as superintendent of the mission until 1841, when on his return he was transferred to the New Hampshire conference. He died in 1865 in Moretown, Vt.

Spaulding, Solomon

lawyer, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 20, 1761, in Ashford, Conn. He was a graduate of Dartmouth college, and wrote a remarkable story of fiction, entitled Manuscript Found, which is now generally regarded as the basis of the Mormon Bible. He died Sept. 10, 1816, in Amity, Pa.

Spaulding, Wesley J

clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 18, 1827, in Newark, N. Y. He graduated from the Indiana Asbury university, and received from that institution the degree of Ph. D. In 1855 he became professor of Greek in the Iowa Wesleyan university of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and in 1876 became president of that institution.

He has been pastor in the methodist episcopal church, and contributes extensively to current literature.

Spear, Charles

clergyman, author, was born May 1, 1801, in Boston, Mass.

He was a universalist minister of Boston active in prison reform; and the author of Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; and Voices from Prison. He died April 18, 1863, in Washington, D. C.

Spear, David Dana

physician, surgeon, poet, was born May 26, 1839, in Yarmouth, Maine. In 1864 he commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Kennebunk, Maine; and is now located at Freeport. He has contributed a number of poems to Christian publications.

Spear, Ellis

lawyer, commissioner of patents, was born Oct. 15, 1834, in Warren, Maine. He was a citizen of Maine; and was commissioner of patents in the department of the interior from 1877 to 1878. He settled in Washington city in the practice of law.

Spear, Samuel P

soldier, was born in 1815 in Boston, Mass. He commanded several expeditions during the civil war; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general. He died May 5, 1875, in New York city.

Spear, Samuel Thayer

journalist, clergyman, author, was born March 4, 1812, in Ballston Spa, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871; and the author of Family Power; Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; and The Bible Heaven. He died in 1891.

Spears, John Randolph

journalist, author, was born in 1850 in Ohio. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; and The Port of Missing Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea.

Spears, William T

physician, surgeon, poet, was born Sept. 10, 1854, in Morgan county, Ga. For several years he was engaged in educational work; then took up the study of medicine, and is now of the leading enone physicians and surgeons of the south at Rutledge, Ga. He is the author of a volume of poems titled Sentiments of Leisure Hours, which contains number of poems of acknowledged merit; and his poems have been given a place in several standard collections. a