Brief Life History of Clarence Jerald
When Clarence Jerald Sprague was born on 5 April 1885, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Walter Franklin Sprague, was 33 and his mother, Clara Isabelle Wilkinson, was 23. He died on 26 August 1895, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 10, and was buried in North Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Clarence J Sprague, "Rhode Island State Census, 1885"
- Clarence Jerald Sprague, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Clarence Jeraul Sprague, "Rhode Island, Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1851–1943 Male
1861–1943 Female
Siblings (1)
1885–1895 Male
World Events (5)
1886
Age 1
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
Age 1
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 5
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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