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     Harriet E. Spelman was the daughter of Israel Monson Spelman.¹ Harriet E. Spelman married Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Appleton, in 1868.¹

     Harriet Brackett Spence was the daughter of Keith Spence and Mary Traill. Harriet Brackett Spence married Rev. Charles Lowell, son of Hon. John Lowell LL.D. and Rebecca Russell, on 2 October 1806 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.² Harriet Brackett Spence died on 30 March 1850.³

     Keith Spence married Mary Traill.

     Caleb Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer.² Caleb Spencer. A soldier of the Revolution. He married Jerusha Covell.² Caleb Spencer died in 1806.² He was buried in Windham, New York.³

     Elizabeth Spencer married Sir James Dashwood.

     Ellen Spencer was born on 13 May 1850 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio.² She was the daughter of Platt Rogers Spencer and Persis Duty.¹ Ellen Spencer married Brigadier Gen. Reuben Delavan Mussey, son of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey and Hetty Osgood, on 14 June 1871 in Washington, District of Columbia.² She was educated at the Geneva (Ohio) High School, Lake Erie College, Ohio, and Rockford College, Illinois. She then studied law in the office of General Mussey and practised with him until his death in 1892. In 1893 she was admitted to the bar, and was a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the thirteenth woman to be so admitted, and of the Court of Claims. Of her many cases before the Supreme Court she has never lost one. In 1896 she founded the Washington College of Law, which, in 1899, awarded her the honorary degree of LL.M., and was for seven years its Dean, the only woman dean of a law college. For twenty-five years she was attorney for the legations of Sweden and Norway and she has been counsel for several national patriotic and labor organizations. She has been the author of bills giving married women in the District of Columbia the right to their own earnings and giving mothers the same right as fathers in the guardianship of their children. She has also been instrumental in gaining legislation for the establishment of free kindergartens, free schools for sub-normal children, juvenile courts, compulsory education, and the Federal Child Bureau. As a member of the Woman Suffrage Association she spoke before the United States Senate Committee in 1910. She is the author of articles on Marriage and Divorce, Legal Relations of Parent and Child (Good Housekeeping Magazine, November, 1910), Laws Relating to Women in the Forty-Six States of the Union (1912), Laws of Nations Relating to Women (1912), and Historic Washington (American Monthly Magazine, April, 1912). For the first six months of 1912 she was the editor of the American Monthly Magazine.
Mrs. Mussey was one of the founders of the American National Red Cross, was chairman of the women's citizens' committee for the 36th National Encampment, G. A. R., in Washington in 1902, and was formerly Vice-President of the Board of Education, Washington. In September, 1911, she was a delegate to the International Council of Women at Stockholm and she is Chairman of the Committee on the Legal Status of Women of the National Council of Women. She was at one time Vice-President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, State Regent of the District of Columbia, D. A. R., and President of the Legion of Loyal Women. She was President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and a member of the National Geographic Society, an honorary member of the College Women's Club of the District of Columbia, and a member of the Dames of the Loyal Legion and of the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots.³

     Louise M. Spencer was born in 1894.¹ He married Winifred Emerson, daughter of Charles Hart Emerson and Melinda Elizabeth Stearns.¹

     Platt Rogers Spencer was born on 7 November 1800 in East Fishkill, New York, (also found as 7 September).² He was the son of Caleb Spencer and Jerusha Covell.^1,2 A descendant of John Spencer of Rhode Island who sailed from England, March 26, 1633, and died in 1684.
He removed with his family to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810; taught writing, and until 1832 was variously engaged as a student, teacher and bookkeeper. He was an earnest advocate of total abstinence, to which principle he had become convert in 1832; was county treasurer for twelve years; a zealous promoter of the antislavery movement; influential in organizing several business colleges in the United States, and was an instructor in business colleges throughout the country. He was the originator of the Spencerian system of penmanship, and in 1848 published Spencer and Rice's System of Business and Ladies' Penmanship, which appeared in a second edition as Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship. He was married, April, 1828, to Persis, daughter of Duty Ebenezer and Sallie Warren of Ashtabula, Ohio, and of his children, Ellen (Spencer) Mussey (q.v.), became prominent in Washington in the legal profession. He is the author of several books on penmanship and the Key to Spencerian Penmanship completed in 1864.² Platt Rogers Spencer married Persis Duty, daughter of Mark Duty and Sallie Warren, in April 1828.¹ Platt Rogers Spencer died on 16 May 1864 in Geneva, Ohio, at the age of 63.²

     Sarah Spencer married Joseph Morgan.¹

     Augusta Sprague was born on 27 April 1836 in Massachusetts.^2,3 She married Ammi Richamah Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Tryphosa Fuller, on 29 August 1861 The 1900 census records five children being born and only three surviving until then.^1,4 Augusta Sprague appears on the census of 1920 at Madison Avenue, Albany, New York.⁵

     Dr. Lawrence Sprague was born on 3 May 1781 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.¹ He married Sarah Titcomb, daughter of Gen. Jonathan Titcomb and Sarah Steadiman, on 13 December 1802.

     Lydia Sprague was born in 1832.¹ She married Haynes Jewett Jr., son of Haynes Jewett and Hannah Wood.¹

     Lois Addison Sprigg was born on 5 June 1896.¹ She was the daughter of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹

     William Mercer Sprigg was born on 9 May 1899.¹ He was the son of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹

     William Mercer Sprigg MD married Lucy Derby Page, daughter of Prof. Charles Grafton Page and Priscilla Sewall Webster, on 25 January 1894.¹

     Rev. Alpheus Spring was born on 10 May 1739.¹ He was the son of Henry Spring and Reziah Converse.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring married Sarah Frost, daughter of Judge Simon Frost and Mercy Sewall, on 19 May 1769.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring died on 14 June 1791 in Kittery, Maine, at the age of 52.¹

     Elizabeth Spring married John Mason.¹

     Henry Spring married Reziah Converse.

     Lydia Spring was baptised on 15 January 1775.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹ Lydia Spring married Rev. Samuel Chandler circa 1793.¹

     Mary Spring was born in June 1773.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹

     Mary Spring was born in 1698.³ She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn.^1,2 Mary Spring was christened on 5 August 1698 at Pakenham, Suffolk.⁴ She married Rev. John Symonds in January 1725/26 in Hengrave Church, Suffolk.⁵ Mary Spring died in 1763. She was buried on 10 December 1763 in Pakenham Church, Suffolk.⁶

     Merilina Spring was baptised on 5 October 1695 at Pakenham, Suffolk.² She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn.¹ Merilina Spring married Thomas Discipline.¹ Merilina Spring died on 6 November 1761 in Pakenham at the age of 66.³

     Rebecca Spring was born in 1771.¹ She married Daniel Moor Jr., son of Daniel Moor and Elizabeth White, in 1797.¹ Rebecca Spring died in 1851.¹

     Sarah Spring was born in January 1772.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹ Sarah Spring married Capt. Simon Jackson in 1802.¹

     Sir Thomas Spring bt was born on 1 December 1672 in Pakenham, Suffolk.² He married Merilina Jermyn, daughter of Thomas Jermyn Baron Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury and Mary Merry, on 23 May 1691. Sir Thomas Spring bt died on 2 April 1704 at the age of 31.³ He was buried on 6 April 1704 in Pakenham, Suffolk.⁴

     Sir William Spring bt was baptised on 16 January 1696/97 at Pakenham, Suffolk.² He was the son of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn.¹ Sir William Spring bt died on 22 March 1736/37, at the age of 40 unmarried.^1,3

     Hattie A. Spurr was born on 30 April 1855 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts. She married George Sterling Whitbeck on 31 October 1877.