The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22
OBITUARY.


The many friends Of ChaIes Carroll
Spaulding, one Of the reporters of the Bos-
ton Herald, will sorrow to learn of hia
death. 1t has bccn the fortune OF the writer
to have known MIR. Spaulding for more than
a score OF years, and 20 have enjoyed Lis
friendship. y more genial, generous heart
ed, friendly man, has rarely been
connected with the press. Ia his college
days lie may be truly said to have been the
most popular young nan in Burlington,
both in the University and among its citi-
zens, and hundreds Of friends throughout
the couotry will lament his demise.
lie died Mt hls residence in Boston on
Thursday last after an illness that has been
long upon him and had confined him to his
house for five or ak weeks. lie was the son
Of Hon. John Spaulding loI g the state
treasurer of Nern.ont, and was born at
Montpelier, SJp'embcr G3l, 1926. and was
consequently in the fifty first year of h s ace,
and chose the profession of civil engineer.
We give The following sketch Of his Ca
rcer from the pen of his co-lsba1er, Mr..
Haskell, editor OF The Boston HerdlG.
In 1916. when the California gold fever
broke out he was among the pioneers who
sought that auIiierous land, making the
passage in a sailing vessel around Cape
Horn. lie a. once went TO mining aud
pursued it with varying success for three
years, when, becoming disguised with it,
be set his face homeward. He journeyed
along down the Pacific ccast, and finally
reached the city Of Mexico, where he spent
some months and then went across the
Gull to New orleans and thence home.
After a year in his native st4te a restless
spirit again cent hin forth INFO the word.
lie went to New York and became con-
nected with Handlers express company,
acting in the capacity OF messenger be-
tween that city aud Boston. This sort of
life proving too monOtOnuus he abandoned
il in about a year, aud went west 10 seek an
opening ior the practice OF his profession
lie lrst tt0pped in Dayton, o., where he
surveyed u railroad then about TO be built.
A year or less later he was further west,
and surveyed n railroad winch ran through
sections of Illinois and Indiana. Still later
he was for a couple Of years engaged on a
road running out of Louisville. While
there he met an old California acQuaint-
ance, with whom he juurneyed to Missouri
1t was here that lie met the lady who is
now his widow, and here that he made and
lost several very fair fortunes. He at once
took an active pant in the establishment of
the territorial government OF Kansas, max
ing preliminary surveys and encouraging
immigration by writing special letters to
the New York Tribune, which attracted no
little attention in the east. Kansas then
began to fill up rapidly with free sellers,
but his sympathies were with Missouri peo-
pie, and he published tho first paper in
Lawrence county in their interest. This
paper acquired a wide influence on the
border, but he finally sold it and joined the
journal Of Commerce, published IN kansas
City. He was elected an alderman, and at
one time was mayor several months-mayor
pro teR. Finally the Kansas war broke
out and he became "a border ruff an"
Many O time in late years has be depict.
ed to intimate friends h%ereabouts the scenes
enacted in those stirring times in which he
was a participant. The troubles increased,
and he, with many others, was q sufferer.
His newspaper office, and everything else
he had there were destroyed, and himself
and family given from midnight till morn
ing to leave that vicinity with a very disa-
gIeeahle alternative. lie left, went mt a
thinly populated district, built a log cabin
and became district shool master. This he
has often referred to IA being the happiest
period Of his life. Finally tho war broke
out and he, being a Douglass man, had ia
leave.
lie came home with his wife and child
in June, 1861, enlisted in the Fifth Yer
mont regiment, served two years, came
home and started a paper at Newport, VI.