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 THE FIRST CHURCH IN DOVER, AND ITS PASTOR.

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���REV. GEORGE B. SPALDING.

��12. Robert Gray, 1787-1805.

13. Caleb Hamilton Shearman, 1807-'12.

14. Joseph Ward Clary, 1812-'2S,

15. Hubbard Winslow, D.D., LL.D., 1828-'31.

16. David Root, 1833-'39.

17. Jeremiah Smith Young, 1839-'43.

18. Homer Barrows, lS45-'52.

19. Benjamin Franklin Parsons, 1853- 1856.

20. Elias Huntington Richardson, D.D., 1856-'63.

21. Avery Skinner Walker, 1864-'68.

22. George Burley Spalding, 1869 —.

The Year 1877.

George Burley Spalding, the pres- ent pastor of the First Church, was born in Montpelier, Vt., August 11, 1835, son of Dr. James and Eliza (Reed) Spalding.

Dr. James Spalding was son of Deacon Reuben Spalding, one of the early set- tlers of Vermont, whose life was not more remarkable for his toils, privations and energy as a pioneer in a new coun- try, than for his unbending Christian in-

��tegrity. Dr. James Spalding was the third of twelve children, and for many years was a successful practitioner of medicine, but especially eminent in sur- gery. " His life," said a printed sketch, " was that of the Good Samaritan, a life of toil, prayer, and sympathy for oth- ers."

George Burley Spalding was the sev- enth of nine children. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1856, being twenty-one years of age. He read law one year in Vermont, and then went to Tallahassee, Florida, where he read law another year. While in the South, he was a regular correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer, of which his brother, James Reed Spalding, was one of the editors. As such he attended the noted Southern Commercial Convention in Savannah, in 1858, where Yancey, Rhett, Barnwell and De Bow poured out their hot invective. In the following year he mingled with the great Southern leaders, on the eve of the great events

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