Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Sprague was born on 20 February 1828, in East Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Reuben Sprague, was 51 and his mother, Hulda Hoag, was 37. He married Olive Etta Gould on 3 June 1853. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States for about 10 years and Erie, New York, United States in 1880. He died on 5 August 1903, in Salem, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75.
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- George Sprague, "United States Census, 1900"
- Geo. W. Sprague, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
- George S. Sprague in entry for Charles S. Miller and Sarah L. Sprague, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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