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2 unusual facts about Spencer Houghton Cone


Spencer Houghton Cone

During the War of 1812, he was at the Battle of Bladensburg with Norvell and the account of this experience has been chronicled in "Some Account of the Life of Spencer Houghton Cone, A Baptist Preacher in America," published in New York in 1856.

Soon afterward, in connection with his brother-in-law, John Norvell, he purchased and published the Baltimore "Whig."



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