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2 unusual facts about Augustus B. R. Sprague


Augustus B. R. Sprague

He served as sheriff of Worcester County from 1871 to 1890 and was a member of the Worchester City Council.

He was also descendant from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.


Achsa W. Sprague

Sprague's papers are archived in the library of the Vermont Historical Society.

Arthur D. Hay

On November 28, 1942, he was appointed by Oregon Governor Charles A. Sprague to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace John L. Rand who had died in office.

Augustus B. Woodward

His biographer, Arthur M. Woodford, describes Woodward as a prototype of Washington Irving’s Ichabod Crane.

Carl T. Sprague

In the 1930s he moved to Bryan, Texas and ceased recording, though he would return to play folk festivals during the genre's resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s.

Chalacot

However, a little more than generation later Chalacot had declined; Guglielmo Massaia found only 200 houses with about 1,000 inhabitants and in the 1880s Augustus B. Wylde reported he counted only 80 houses there.

Charles F. Sprague

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

Charles Sprague

Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Franklin B. Sprague

Sprague played an important part in the early history of Crater Lake National Park.

In October 1865, Sprague was leading a patrol of eleven cavalry troopers from C Company of the 1st Oregon Cavalry south of Warner Lake in present day Lake County, Oregon, when they were ambushed by approximately 125 Indians in two groups.

Franklin Sprague

Frank J. Sprague (1857–1934), American naval officer and inventor

Franklin B. Sprague (1825–1895), American military officer, businessman and judge

John Sprague

John W. Sprague (1817–1894), American soldier and railroad executive

John W. Sprague

He was instrumental in selecting the route for the railroad's Pacific Division, from what later became Kalama, Washington, to Tacoma.

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

In 2012, the museum adopted a cat, called Frank the Trolley Cat, after Frank J. Sprague, the inventor of the trolley wheel.

Tekezé River

Augustus B. Wylde records a related tradition that near the source of the Tekezé, at the location of Eyela Kudus Michael church, is the true resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant.


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