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Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md., and the Uni- versity of Louvain, Belgium, and was ordained at Mechlin, Belgium, by Cardinal Engelbert Stercks, Dec. 19, 1863. He returned to Kentuckj% and was assistant to Bishop Spalding at the catlie- dral at Louisville, Ky., in 18G5. He organized and built St. Augustine's church, for Roman Catholic negroes : was its pastor, and was chan- cellor of the diocese and secretary to Bishop La- vialle, 1871-73. He removed to New York city, and was pastor at St. Michael's, 1872-77; was cousecreted in New York city, bishop of Peoria, May 1, 1877, by Cardinal McCloskey, assisted by Bisliops Foley and Gibbons. He is the author of : Life of the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding. Archhishop (1872); Essays in Reviews (1876); Religious Mis- sion of the Irish People (1880); Lectures and Dis- courses (1882); Education and the Higher Life; Tilings of the Mind; Means and Ends of Educa- tion; Thoughts and Theories of Life and Educa- tion (1898); America, and other Poems; The Poet's Praise; Poems; Opportunitu and other Essays (1900); God and the Soul (1902); Relig- ion and Agnosticism (1902); Socialism and ■other Essays (1902).

SPALDING, Martin John, R.C. archbishop, was born in Lebanon, Marion county, Ky., May 23, 1810; son of Richard and Henrietta (Hamil- ton) Spalding. He w^as graduated from St. Mary's seminary, in 1826, and studied theology at St. Joseph's seminary, Bardstown, 1826-30, and at the Propaganda, Rome. He was ordained priest, Aug. 13, 1834, by special dispensation, at Rome, Italy, by Cardinal Charles Marcel, and was pastor of the cathedral at Bardstown, Ky.; professor of philosophy at St. Joseph's seininary; president of St. Joseph's college, 1838-40; and pastor of St. Peter's church, Lexington, Ky., 1840-41. When the see was removed from Bardstown to Louisville in 1841, he returned to Bardstown in order to rec- oncile the Roman Catholic inliabitants to the transfer, but in 1844 he was recalled to Louisville and appointed vicar-general. He administered the affairs of the diocese during the illness of the bisliop coadjutor, Guy Ignatius Chabrat, and in February, 1848, was appointed to the office of coadjutor to succeed Bishop Chabrat, resigned. He was consecrated bishop of "Lengone" at Bardstown, Ky., Sept. 10, 1848, by Bishop Flaget, assisted by Bishops Kenrick and Miles, and suc- ceeded Bishop Flaget, deceased, as bishop of Bardstown. He laid the foundations of a cathedral at Louisville, established several schools, orphan asylums and colleges, including the American college at Louvain; recalled the Jesuits into the diocese, and during the riots of 1855 in Louisville he was foremost in preventing the spread of the disturbances. On the death of A rciibishop Ken- rick, in June, 1864, lie was transferred to the see IX.— 29

of Baltimore, and installed as archbishop, July 81, 1804. He was appointed administrator of the diocese of Charleston, S.C., in 1865, during the

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Paul held at Rome, and a member of the CEcu- menical council of the Vatican. The degree of D.D. wasconfeiTed on him by the Urban college of the Propaganda. He was one of the founders of the Catholic Advocate; was an editor of the U.S. Catholic Magazine, and is the author of : UAiibigne's History of the Reformation Rrvieived (1844, new ed. 1846); Sketches of the Early Cath- olic Missions in Kentucky, 1787-1826-27 (1846); Lectures on the General Evidences of Christianity (1947, newed., 1866); Life, Times and Character of the Rt. Rev. B.J. Flaget {1^2); Miscellanea, Comprising Reviews, Lectures and Essays on Historical, Theological and Miscellaneous Sub- jects (1855) and History of the Protestant Refor- mation (2 vols. 1860). He edited, with an intro- dution and notes, Abbe Darras's " General His- tory of the Catholic Church " (4 vols. 1866). He died in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7, 1872.

SPALDING, Rufus Paine, jurist and represen- tative, was born in West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., May 3, 1798. He was gradu- ated at Yale, A.B., 1817, A.M., 1820, and studied law with Zephaniah Swift. He was admitted to the bar in Little Rock, Ark., and in 1821 moved to Portage county, Ohio, where, in 1822, he mar- ried Lucretia, daughter of Zephaniah Swift. He was a Democratic representative from Portage county in the Ohio legislature, 1839-40, and from Summit county, 1841-42, serving as speaker 1841-43. He was judge of the supreme court of Ohio, 1849-52, one of the organizers of the Re- publican party, and was a Republican representa- tive from the eighteenth Ohio district in the 38th, 39th and 40th congresses, 1863-69. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1886.

SPALDING, Volney Morgan, educator, was born in East Bloomfield, N.Y., Jan. 29, 1849; son of Frederick Austin and Almina (Shaw) Spald- ing; grandson of Frederick and Elizabeth (Morgan) Spalding, and of Joseph and Hannah (Gillett) Shaw, and a descendant of Edward Spalding, who came from England about 1619, and became a member of the Virginia colony, and some years later joined the Massachusetts