Sprague, Charles
financier, author, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1791, in Boston, Mass. He was a cashier of the Globe bank, Boston, in 1825-65; and well known in his lifetime as a poet, and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841, the latest edition being that of 1876. He died Jan. 22, 1875, in Boston, Mass.