Milton Chamberlain Sprague

Brief Life History of Milton Chamberlain

When Milton Chamberlain Sprague was born on 23 October 1849, in Harmony Township, Clark, Ohio, United States, his father, James Bailey Sprague, was 28 and his mother, Sarah C. Chamberlin, was 24. He married Alice C. Hurd on 20 August 1874, in Clark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Summerford, Madison, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1922. He died on 24 March 1922, in Franklin Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Somerford Cemetery, Summerford, Madison, Ohio, United States.

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Milton Chamberlain Sprague
1849–1922
Alice C. Hurd
1852–1910
Marriage: 20 August 1874
Clarence Milton Sprague
1875–1943
Anna H Sprague
1877–1954

Sources (13)

  • M C Sprague, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Milton C. Sprague, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997"
  • Milton C Sprague, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"

World Events (8)

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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