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Sprague, Mary Aplin – Sprigg, Samuel

Sprague, Mary Aplin

author, was born in 1849 in Ohio. She is a novelist of Newark, Ohio; and the author of An Earnest Trifler.

Sprague, Nathan Turner

banker, state senator, was born June 22, 1828, in Mount Holly, Vt. In 1883 he established the Sprague National bank of Brooklyn, of which he is president, and in 1886 the City Savings bank of Brooklyn. He has been a member of the Vermont legislature for several terms, was elected a state senator in 1872, and has been a colonel on the Vermont military staff.

Sprague, Peleg

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1756. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1799. He died in 1800.

Sprague, William

congressman, was born in Rhode Island. He moved to Michigan, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851. He died about 1853.

Sprague, William

soldier, manufacturer, banker, governor, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 12, 1830, in Cranston, R. I. In 1861 he was elected governor of Rhode Island. In 1862 he was elected a senator in congress "from Rhode Island for the term ending in 11869. He was re-elected to the senate in

Sprague, William P

merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born May 21, 1827, in Morgan county, Ohio. He was president of the First National bank of McConnellsville, Ohio; was a member of the state senate of Ohio in 1860 and 1862; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.

Spread, Henry Fenton

artist, was born Oct. 21, 1844, in Ireland. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1871, and became its professor of drawing and painting. He left the institute to make a two years' tour in Italy, and on his return founded Spread's Art academy. Among his works are Chicago Rising from Her Ashes; and Sad News.

Sprecher, Samuel

clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 28, 1810, in Hagerstown, Md. He is a lutheran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg seminary at Springfield, Ohio, in 1849-74, and author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.

Sprigg, James C

congressman, was born in Maryland. He was elected a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1841 to 1843.

Sprigg, Michael C

state legislator, congressman. He was frequently a member of the Maryland legislature; and was at one time president of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. He was a presidential elector in 1820; and was a representative in congress from 1827 to 1831. He died in December, 1845, in Cumberland, Md.

Sprigg, Richard

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1796 to 1799, and from 1801 to 1802.

Sprigg, Samuel

governor, was born in Maryland. He was elected governor of that state in 1819, remaining in office until 1822.

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