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 568 SPAULblNG. SI'AULDING. the Church Association ; a member of the diocesan board of missions ; one of the trustees of donations, Episcopal Charitable Society (founded 1724), and chairman of the executive committee of the Episcopa- lian Club ; a member of the Union and St. Botolph clubs, Bostonian Society, Bunker Hill Monument Association, Veteran Ca- dets, Longfellow Memorial Association, Latin School Association, New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society, Mas- sachusetts Reform Club, Tariff Reform League, New York Reform Club, and a life-member of the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Christian Union. He has been three times in Europe, trav- eled much in this country, written often for the press, and delivered frequent ad- dresses. He is unmarried, and his present residence is in Tremont Place, in the city of his birth. SPAULDING, HENRY GEORGE, son of Reuben and Electa (Goodenough) Spauld- ing, was born in Spencer, Worcester county, May 28, 1837. In his early home, in Brattleborough, Vt., he enjoyed the advantages of musical culture under his mother's teaching, and of guidance from his father in the study of Latin. When his father suffered reverses in loss of property, though a mere boy, he began his career of self-help by his labors as an organist and a teacher of music. He also began to contribute articles in prose and verse to the newspapers before he was fifteen years of age. He fitted for college in Northfield Acad- emy (Vt.) and at Phillips Academy, An- dover. He was graduated with the highest honors from Harvard in the famous " sol- dier class " of i860. After graduation he was for two years a private tutor in the family of a gentleman residing in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he entered the service of the United States Sanitary Commission ; was in Maryland after the battle of Antietam, in the hos- pitals of Washington and Alexandria, ami with the Union army at Newbern, N. C, and Beaufort, S. C. Here he collected material for an article which appeared in the "Continental Monthly," under the title of " Under the Palmetto." In the fall of 1S63, he entered the theo- logical school of Harvard University, and was graduated in the class of 1866. In November, 1S67, he was married to Lucy Warland, daughter of Sylvanus and Mary (Bell) Plympton, of Cambridge. Of this union are two children living : Henry Plympton and Elizabeth Bell Spaulding. In February, 1868, Mr. Spaulding was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Framingham. In 1872 he was in Europe several months, spending much of his time in Italy, in the study of art and archaeology. He was settled over the Second Unita- rian church in Dorchester from 1873 to '77. During this time Mr. Spaulding delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston two illus- trated courses of lectures upon "Rome and Roman Life and Art in the First Century." These were highly commended by scholarly critics, and were afterwards repeated in nearly every important educa- tional centre in the eastern states. In May, 1883, Mr. Spaulding accepted the secretaryship of the Unitarian Sunday- school society, and is still discharging the duties of that position, having his office in Boston and residing in the suburban city of Newton. In later years his pen has been active upon topics of literature, art, music, and theology. He has compiled a valuable liturgy and hymnal for Sunday- schools, and has written Sunday-school manuals upon the "Teachings of Jesus," and the " Hebrew Prophets and Kings." He is an active member of a large num- ber of religious, literary and musical or- ganizations, including the Sunday-school Union, Vermont Association (of which he is chaplain), the Tuesday Club, St. Botolph (lul), the O. K. and the Phi Beta Kappa societies of Harvard College, the Brown- ing Society of Boston, and the Harvard Musical Association. • SPAULDING, William Chester, son of Chester and Emily (Button) Spaulding, was born in Sheffield, Berkshire county, March 21, 1832. He obtained his education in the public schools of Sheffield and at Williams Acad- emy, Stockbridge. In his youth and early manhood he en- gaged in farm work, teaching school, how- ever, one-third of the time from 1849 to '59. During this period he read law with Ensign & Bradford, Sheffield. He was admitted to the bar at Lenox, in June, 1S56 ; located for a short time in the village of Mill River, New Marlborough ; spent the winter of 1856 and '57 in Tennes- see ; removed to West Stockbridge in the spring of 1858, and has continued there in the practice of law to the present time. Mr. Spaulding was married in New Marlborough, October 7, 1856, to Sarah L., daughter of James B. and Sarah H. (Smith) Alger. Of this union were five children, only two of whom are living : Emily B. and Frank A. Spaulding.