Sprague played an important part in the early history of Crater Lake National Park.
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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 B. Sprague (1825–1895), American military officer, businessman and judge
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Sprague's papers are archived in the library of the Vermont Historical Society.
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.
He served as sheriff of Worcester County from 1871 to 1890 and was a member of the Worchester City Council.
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He was also descendant from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
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.
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Finding additional evidence in the federal census of 1870, which he also supervised, he presented a paper entitled On the Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests to the 1873 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Portland, Maine.
Dr. Hough was a medical doctor, scientist, historian and the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, the predecessor of the United States Forest Service.
Franklin B. Carpenter (1818–1862), American lumber merchant and politician
Frank J. Sprague (1857–1934), American naval officer and inventor
The mountain, part of the Dix Range, is named after Franklin B. Hough (1822–1885), the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, and sometimes called the "father of American forestry".
John W. Sprague (1817–1894), American soldier and railroad executive
He was instrumental in selecting the route for the railroad's Pacific Division, from what later became Kalama, Washington, to Tacoma.
Music for a While is a musical composition by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, the second of four movements from his incidental music composed in 1692 (Z 583) to John Dryden's and Nathaniel Lee's play Oedipus.
In 2012, the museum adopted a cat, called Frank the Trolley Cat, after Frank J. Sprague, the inventor of the trolley wheel.
Henry Purcell set to omen to Charles IX from act V, "Thy genius, lo", in two versions, the one for baritone (Z 604a) appearing in Orpheus Britannicus.