Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-18


,akota's New conxressman.
h Folsom Spalding, the mem
ngress-elect from the state of.
,kota, is the son Of Rev. BEN
ndall Spalding and Ann Fol-
ding, and was born in Crafts
leans county, Vermont, De-
ID, 1853. His father was a
i itinerant and located at
in Vermont during the
/ OF the son, but in 1862 the
led and when eleven wears Of
of this sketch left
Il afterward supported and
himself. He worked on q
he was sixteen years Of age,
as compensation his board
ing and three months school
The winter. When sixteen
he entered a country store,
semained two years, receiving
.aDADsatiOn for the first vaar,s
ind s72 for the second. Sub
he went to st. Johnsbury,
:, he was employed for two
The store of the Fairbanks
;iufactures, after which he de-
;::self to securing an education.
ing winters and laboring on q
i; mers and doing other odd
:'s enabled to graduate from
University in the class Of
was principal of Albany
during the school year Of
1878 and then read law in
vt, until he was admitted
!; on the 18th of March, 1880.
I'D as q clerk in the legisla-
hcmont during the session of
number of young men who
became residents of
kota were reading law in
i:ir atthe same time Mr.. Spald-
.::ere, among them being Judge
- and George B. Clifford of
ks.
ding's ancestors were Eng
his fathers side his ancestor
Virginia in 1919, and in 1890
! Massachusetts, and the Fol-
H,or settled in Massachusetts
+lembers of both families in
have been engaged in
:onial and other wars of the
Four great grandfathers
the war of the revolution,
Il. andfather Spalding in the
:ding located in Fargo March
!. and this city has been his
lie that time. He has never
ker for Office although he
s.: an active interest in all
!: lestions. and in 1902, 1893
:;;as chairman of the rcpubli-
committee, and in 1896 was
!: Of the Cass county republi-
!: -ttee.
:,een a member of every re-
:tate committee and in the
+: conventions of 1906. was
IT the committee on resolu-
author of the platforms
luded lucid and forceful
! Of the republican principle
"aoney.
]. 10 1854 he was superintend-
.blic instruction for Cass
:: he was elected from this
member of the convention
4: led the constitution of the
+; served while there on the
) on the judicial depart
= school and public lands.
SO a member of the joint
provided by the Enabling
;ii;ie the property and archives
of Dakota between
=:.v states. He was an active
;;;aservative member of that
:::sen actively engaged in the
::::$ law in this city since locat-
J: The firm was Spalding &
e: from 1881 to 1S87-subse-
'::!alding g. Phelps, and is now
padding & Stambaugh, one
firms in the state.
:;:;:ling received the unanimous
4: at the republican state
in 1898, aud received at
more votes than any of
::::g candidates on the state
ways favored clean, politi-
NIB and has never been identi.
.::Iny so called gang in the
The state.
hing is a man of rare ex-
5:'*;lity and a great political
s, He makes no pretensions
4: nut is a clear, concise and
speaker and debater. He
g; the most active and pro-
:;;lpporters of sound money
campaign of 1896 and for
3 prior thereto. As a men,
::::'ress he will be alert to all
!: :: I'D demands Of the state of