Sprague, William Buell

  • Posted on: 25 February 2014
  • By: cfilipek
Primary Name
Prefix or Title: 
Rev.
First Name: 
William
Middle Name: 
Buell
Surname: 
Sprague
Birth and Death
Birth Info
Birth Month: 
October
Birth Day: 
16
Birth Year: 
1795
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Citation Notes: 
https://archive.org/details/lettersfromeuro00spragoog http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sprague&GSfn=William&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=52326104&df=all&
Death Info
Death Month: 
May
Death Day: 
7
Death Year: 
1876
Citation for Death Info: 
Citation Notes: 
https://archive.org/details/lettersfromeuro00spragoog http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sprague&GSfn=William&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=52326104&df=all&
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Marriage and Children Info
Biographical Information
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Biography: 
Found in 18330915BJS_WHS1. BJS comments that WHS's letters tell them more than Sprague's book on his tour in Europe. Rev. William Buell Sprague was a noted Presbyterian minister and author. He graduated from Yale College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York, for forty years. He was a philographer who collected over 100,000 signatures of famous men. He was the son of Benjamin Sprague and Sybil Buell and the husband of 1) Charlotte Eaton, daughter of Gen. William Eaton; 2) Mary Lathrop (1804-1837); and 2) Henrietta Burritt Lathrop (1805-1893).
Citation Notes: 
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sprague&GSfn=William&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=52326104&df=all&
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