Spinola, Francis B
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born March 19, 1821, in Stony Brook, N.
Y. He served six years as member of the assembly of the state of New York, and four years as a senator. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, for meritorious conduct in recruiting and organizing a brigade of four regiments and accompanying them to the field. He was elected from New York to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
He died April 12, 1891, in Washington.