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Sprigg, Thomas

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1793 to 1796.

Sprigg, William

lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Michigan; and in 1806 was transferred to the same position in Orleans. In 1812 he was transferred to Louisiana; and in 1813 to the territory of Illinois. On the admission of Missouri into the union as a state he received the appointment of district judge for that state.

Spriggs, John Thomas

lawyer, congressman, was born April 5, 1826, in England. He was elected district attorney of New York in 1853; and county treasurer in 1856. He was elected mayor of the city of Utica in 1868, and again in 1880.

He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat,

Spring, Edward Adolphus

sculptor, was born Aug. 26, 1837, in New York city. In 1868 he discovered at Eagleswood, N. J., a fine modeling clay, peculiarly suited to terra-cotta work, and in 1877 he established at Perth Amboy the Eagleswood Art Pottery. At the National academy he exhibited a bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in 1873, and several terra-cotta pieces in 1878. Since 1880 he has been director of the Chautauqua school of sculpture.

Spring, Gardiner

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1785, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick church in 1810-73; and the author of Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; The Mercy Seat. He died Aug. 18, 1873, in New York city.

Spring, Leverett Wilson

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1840 in Vermont. He is a congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the university of Kansas in 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams college from 1886. He is the author of History of Kansas; and Mark Hopkins:

Teacher.

Spring, Louis Gardiner

clergyman, was born Feb. 13, 1858, in Weathersfield, Ill. He received his education at the York college of Nebraska, and at the Maclay College of Theology. He has attained success as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate at Garden Grove, Cal.

Springer, Rebecca Ruter

author, poet, was born Nov. 8, 1832, in Indianapolis, Ind. She is the author of two novels entitled Beechwood; and Self; and a volume of poems entitled Songs of the Sea.

Sproat, Ebenezer

soldier, civil engineer, was born in 1752 in Middleborough, Mass. In 1775 he entered the army as a captain, and became a lieutenantcolonel. He was subsequently a surveyor of Providence, R. I. He died in February, 1805, in Marietta, Ohio.

Sproull, Thomas

reformer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1803, near Freeport, Pa.

He was a reformed presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.

Spruance, Presley

merchant, United States senator, was born in 1785 in Delaware. He served in the Delaware state senate and was president of that body. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1847 to 1853. He died Feb. 13, 1863, in Smyrna, Del.

Spurgeon, James Arbuthnot

educator, lawyer, was born in 1868 in Brown county, Ohio. He received his education in the Missouri Normal school of Kirksville, Mo. He then entered educational work; studied law; and is now one of the leading lawyers of his native state at Joplin.