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	Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island
		William Sprague was born in Cranston,Rhode Island on September 12, 1830.
		The three Sprague's, Amasa, William and Byron petitioned to incorporate and the charter was granted June 2, 1859.
		Sprague had made Canonchett elegant with the idea that it would be serving as the summer White House where she would be hostess for her widowed father.
	www.geocities.com /rilydia/william.html (1797 words)

	Sprague, NE: Sprague History & Origin
		Sprague was early known as one of the toughest towns because of the railroad workers who congregated there.
		Sprague came with her husband to Nebraska from Ohio in 1868 settling on a homestead 16 miles south of Lincoln.
		Prior to the year 1888, the town of Sprague was undreamed of, and yet suddenly, the force of the Western migration made itself known in the form of the small village or hamlet.
	www.lincoln.ne.gov /towns/sprague/history.htm (798 words)

	Murder of Amasa Sprague
		The Sprague's had four surviving children in their twenty-two year marriage, Mary Ann Sprague, Almira Sprague, who would marry Thomas Doyle of Providence, future Mayor, Amasa II, and William Sprague IV, future Governor and Senator, like his uncle William, Amasa's brother.
		Amasa and his brother William Sprague, had inherited the print works from their father when he died on March 28th 1836, at 63 years old from an inflammation of the throat, caused by a fragment of rib bone which lodged in his throat.
		While his brother William was politically active, at first as a representative from Warwick in the state legislature, then a state representative in the United States Congress, Rhode Island Governor, then in the state legistature again, then elected United States Senator in 1842, Amasa was running the Sprague Company.
	www.cranstonhistoricalsociety.org /whokilledamasasprague.html (3094 words)

	Sprague Mansion, Cranston, RI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Williams openly invited all races and religions to live in peace in Rhode Island and aimed for peace among the white man and the Narragansett Indians.
		William Sprague, a governor of Rhode Island from 1860-1863, took a small cotton printing plant and made it into one of the great textile empires of the day.
		Because Sprague was such a prominent figure in the area he had the power to do this, and because Gordon was just an immigrant, he had no choice but to accept the revoke.
	riroads.com /members/sprague.htm (1521 words)

	Sprague
		William Sprague, a cousin of Israel Sprague deeded him a farm for $1,200 in Phillipston, Mass., September 10, 1821.
		Edward Sprague was a miller by trade, owned a corn mill situated on the three mile brook near Ell Pond, and became an important factor in the life of this new and growing community.
		Ralph Sprague was a farmer and one of the founders of Charlestown, MA.
	www.globalgrl.com /pike/sprague.htm (4852 words)

	Cranston Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William IV attended the Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York until the age of thirteen when his father was taken from him.
		Upon the death of his Uncle William III in 1856, William Sprague IV, at age twenty-six took his place as a partner with his brother Amasa in the company, along with their cousin, William's only son Byron Sprague.
		Sprague had made Canochet elegant with the idea that it would be serving as the summer White House where she would be hostess for her widowed father.
	www.cranstonhistoricalsociety.org /williamsprague4.html (1867 words)

	William Sprague: b. 7 May 1650, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, USA, d. 26 Sep 1723, Providence, Providence Co., RI, USA
		William Sprague, Jr., went to Bridgwater and became progenitor of a large and prominent race, and Sprague Hill, of that town, honors the name.
		William Sprague the son of Peter and the residuary devisee under his father's will, died April 1, 1795, and by his will, after making provision for his wife and children, Sarah and Peter, gives all the rest and residue of his property to his sons Abner and William.
		William was elected to several offices of public trust, and became the Governor of the State and a Member of Congress.
	www.sprague-database.org /genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I36079&tree=SpragueProject (1644 words)

	University of Delaware: LETTERS FROM WILLIAM BUELL SPRAGUE
		On August 25, 1819, William Buell Sprague was ordained and installed as an assistant to the Reverend Doctor Joseph Lathrop, pastor of the Congregational Church of West Springfield, Massachusetts.
		Sprague was known as an eloquent speaker, a scholar of Protestant history and biography, a prolific author of more than 150 titles, and an avid collector of autograph manuscripts.
		Although Sprague was zealous in his collecting, his own opinion of collectors is recorded thus: "I would advise you to have as little to do with an autograph collector as possible, for though there are some honorable exceptions yet, as a class, I think they rank A No. 1 in point of meanness.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/sprague.htm (626 words)

	William Sprague (1809-1868) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Sprague (February 23, 1809 – September 19, 1868) was a minister and politician in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Sprague was born in Providence, Rhode Island, a distant cousin of William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island.
		Sprague defeated incumbent Democrat Charles E. Stuart to be elected as a Whig, though he is sometimes also identified with the Free Soil Party, from Michigan's 2nd District to the Thirty-first Congress, serving March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Sprague_(1809-1868) (296 words)

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		William Sprague (1830-1915) was born in Cranston, Rhode Island to Amasa Sprague (1798-1843) and Fanny (Morgan) Sprague (1798-1883).
		Sprague's father Amasa and his uncle William were partners in A. and W. Sprague, a calico printing mill in Cranston.
		Sprague was known as the "War Governor" because he personally led his troops to the front as soon as Lincoln asked for volunteers.
	www.rihs.org /mssinv/Mss733.htm (1214 words)

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		William Sprague, fuller, of Upwey, County Dorset, England was a settler at Salem, MA in 1628 and at Hingham, MA in 1636.
		William Sprague, of Charlestown and Hingham, planter, was born in England, and was the youngest son of Edward Sprague.
		William Sprague's houselot was said to have been the pleasantest lot in Hingham; it was about two miles north of the Patent Line which formerly divided the old Massachusetts Colony from the Plymouth Colony.
	royosborn.com /genealogy/sprague_history.html (6508 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > William Sprague: A Featured Biography
		William Sprague (1830-1915) lived a life fit for novels.
		Sprague resigned as governor in 1863 to become a U.S. senator.
		Sprague eventually remarried and retired to his beloved Rhode Island estate, Canonchet.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Sprague.htm (191 words)

	ARTHUR WILLIAM SPRAGUE and CORA LOWERY
		Born: 16 Mar 1856, at Walsoken, Cambridgeshire, England; son of William Spraggs and Emily Spraggs, formerly Atwood.
		Arthur and Emily Sprague (Spraggs) immigrated from England with their parents to the United States in 1862 and settled at Chicago the same year.
		Arthur's son, Arthur William Sprague, recalled that he visited his father on the day of his death and that it occurred in a hospital on the northeast corner of Cossitt Avenue and LaGrange Road in La Grange.
	www.awsprague.org /spragaw1.htm (3416 words)

	Amazon.fr : Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage: Livres en anglais: Peg A. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the opening of the Civil War, her husband, William Sprague, was a wealthy industrialist, the "boy governor" of Rhode Island, a dashing military figure, and an alcoholic.
		After looking at the lives of Chase and Sprague before they met, Peg A. Lamphier analyzes their courtship, their marriage, Chase's role as her father’s campaign manager, Sprague’s marital infidelities, Chase’s affair with Roscoe Conkling, Sprague’s abusiveness, and Chase and Sprague’s divorce and the issues of child custody it evoked.
		Kate Chase and William Sprague delves into the social history of a nineteenth-century marriage and provides important insight into the role of gender in the political history of the time.
	www.amazon.fr /Kate-Chase-William-Sprague-Marriage/dp/080322947X (450 words)

	William SPRAGUE
		William arrived at Salem, Massachusetts aboard the Abigail in 1628, removing to Hingham in 1636.
		William "came to New England, settling in Charlestown, where he was living until 1636.
		William Sprague or his wife became a member of Hingham church, based on baptisms of several children there.
	homepage.mac.com /billwesco/PS19/PS19_021.HTML (331 words)

	Sprague Mansion
		Amasa Sprague lived in the old house until New Years Eve, 1843, when he was murdered.
		His son, Governor William Sprague was a Civil War hero and cotton mill tycoon.
		This is believed to be the spirit of Kate Chase Sprague, wife of Governor William Sprague.
	www.delcoghosts.com /Sprague_Mansion.html (475 words)

	ARTHUR WILLIAM SPRAGUE and LOUIS BLISS HORR
		Sprague-- mother of the boy my daughter loves and will marry,-- you have no idea how I hate to write you all this-- but I do it for the sake of the happiness of these two young lives who are so dear to us both.
		This letter was probably from William Hastings, one of Arthur's important clients from La Grange who lived two blocks from him on Seventh Street.
		In 1957 he was a partner in the firm of Sprague and (Abraham) Redman.
	www.awsprague.org /spraguea.htm (6610 words)

	William R Sherman (1834 - 1915)
		A notation on the map indicated William was a farmer raising grain, hay, fruit and stock.
		William is an alien, he owned his farm free of debt, both could read, write and speak English.
		William's estate was administered by his son Alonzo J Sherman, and was valued at $7,288.
	www.sherman-roots.com /sherman/bio/14-sherm-william-r.html (1509 words)

	William Bradford Sprague biography - PA Civil War soldier - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		Captain William Bradford Sprague was born in Maple Grove, North Danville, Vermont, March 24, 1822.
		It is through Captain William Bradford Sprague that descent is claimed from Governor William Bradford, "the Puritan." In 1861, being then forty years of age, he began recruiting men in Allegheny county for war service, being then engaged in the drug business in Elizabeth, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania.
		Captain William Bradford Sprague was a descendant of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth and Mayflower fame, born at Austerfield, England, 1589, married Alice Hauson, came to New England in the "Mayflower," 1620, and was the first governor of Plymouth Colony until his death in 1657.
	www.pacivilwar.com /bios/sprague_william_bradford.php (775 words)

	William Sprague
		SPRAGUE, William, governor of Rhode Island, born in Cranston, Rhode Island, 3 November, 1799; died in Providence, Rhode Island, 19 October, 1856.
		He received a good education at an early age, became a member of the assembly, and in 1832 was chosen speaker of the house.
		He was largely engaged in the manufacture of cotton, and was president of the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill railroad, and of two banks.--His nephew, William, governor of Rhode Island, born in Cranston, Rhode Island, 12 September, 1830, received his education in common schools, served in his father's factory, and engaged in making calico-prints.
	www.famousamericans.net /williamsprague (580 words)

	William Sprague & Millecent Eames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William sailed to Salem in 1629 with his two brothers on the ship "Lyon's Whelp".
		William married Millicent there, and together with her parents they moved to Hingham, MA in 1636 where they were granted land.
		In 1662 William was constable of Hingham and collector of the town rates.
	members.cox.net /spartanshope/tree/famf227.html (243 words)

	SPRAGUE Family of MASSACHUSETTS and RHODE ISLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Item-1 give and bequeath unto William Sprague my youngest son twenty pounds to be paid when he shall be of the age of one and twenty years.
		MEATORAND: that if Richard Sprague, Christopher Sprague or William Sprague shall happen to die either of them before they shall be of the age of one and twenty years, that then their legacies to remain to the other then living.
		Sprague of Barre, Vermont, author of the Ralph Sprague Genealogy, and to so many others that it is impossible to name them all.W. March 1st, 1913.The Spragues came into England from Holland, probably during Queen Elizabeth's time, or before.
	home.comcast.net /~emailmary/sprague.htm (4301 words)

	Chicago Artists's Coalition Online
		Born in Chicago in 1950, William Geoffrey Sprague started his painting career at the age of 11.
		He received oil paints and canvas as a present, and his desire to create art was ignited.
		William Geoffrey Sprague has numerous works in private collections.
	www.caconline.org /artist.asp?artist=Williamsprague (286 words)

	H-Net Review: Joan Waugh on Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage
		Sprague's public accomplishments must be judged alongside his weakness for alcohol, his constant philandering, and his verbal and physical abuse of his wife.
		William's career continued apace, although never fulfilling his early potential.
		The Sprague fortune took a serious blow in the depression of 1873, but William was still able to live well at Canonchet with his second wife.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=284251121789638 (1458 words)

	The Sprague DNA Project - Ancestors
		Below are the lines of the Sprague founding fathers; the earliest heads of Sprague lines ending up in America.
		The Sprague Project is the premier, genealogical source for the Sprague and Sprague-derivative surnames.
		The Sprague surname and derivatives are grouped by [brackets].
	www.sprague-dna.org /ancestors.html (412 words)

	Southern New York Book 2 - part 125
		According to the federal census Abel Sprague was living in 1790 at Hebron, Washington County, New York, and had in his family one son under sixteen and one female.
		(VII) Abel (2), son of Abel (1) Sprague, was born in 1766, died in 1842 at Lewbeach.
		(IX) Erastus, son of William Sprague, was born in 1824, died in 1894.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/SouthernNewYork2/sny2_pt125.htm (4082 words)

	Amazon.ca: Annals of the Presbyterian Pulpit: Volume Three: Books: William Buell Sprague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This three volume hardcover set is very difficult to find and you can purchase all three volumes for less than you could purchase one volume from antiquarian booksellers.
		"Sprague's 'Annals of the American Pulpit' was one of the most useful reference works of the nineteenth century.
		By recording, often from personal acquaintances, key information about a wide range of clergymen in early American history, Sprague made it possible to peer much further into the day-by-day lives of the churches.
	www.amazon.ca /Annals-Presbyterian-Pulpit-William-Sprague/dp/1599250330 (279 words)

	Picture History - William Sprague (1830-1915) and Kate Chase Sprague (1840-1899)
		William Sprague was the governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863.
		He was a member of the Rhode Island State Militia and was offered a commission as brigadier general in 1861 but declined because he wished to be a major general.
		Sprague was elected as a Republican to the Senate (1863-75).
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/18248/mcms.html (158 words)

	William Sprague - Individual Report Generated by GenoPro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William's parents were Edward Sprague and Christiana Holland
		William arrived at Salem, MA aboard the Abigail in 1628, removing to Hingham in 1636.
		On 28 Mar 1651 Thomas Hammond of Hingham, planter, sold to William Sprague of Hingham 'my now dwelling house in the town of Hingham with my house lot containing five acroes more or less...
	www.normasells.com /genealogy/bailey/ind02146.htm (266 words)

	Edward Sprague (ca. 1576-1614) - Fordington St. George, Upway, Dorsetshire, England
		D.L. Kent, in his genealogy of the Sprague Family has the best description of Edward's occupation and station in English society: "Edward was a prosperous master craftsman, fulling mill operator and farmer whose will does not mention freehold land...
		The actual facts of their migration are still a matter of debate, see the discussion in Ralph Sprague's entry.
		William was 19 when he supposedly sailed from Graveshead in London, Middlesex, England on 25 April 1629 aboard the Lyon's Whelp, landing in Naumkeag (Salem), Essex co., MA in mid-July 1629
	xenia.media.mit.edu /~kristin/fambly/Sprague/EdwardSprague.html (715 words)

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