Biographical Sketch of Norman C. Spalding, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Norman C. Spalding was born in Plainfield, N. H., March 20, 1831, and
is the son of Charles C. and Sophia (Willard) Spalding, natives of
Plainfield, N. H.  The father died at the age of forty-five, and when
Norman was but seven years of age.  He was a farmer.  The mother died
in Lake County, Ohio, in 1882, and was seventy-eight years of age at
that time.  The family moved to Lake County, Ohio, when our subject 
was five years of age, and there passed the remainder of their lives.
Of their five children, two now living, Norman was the second.  He was
educated in the schools of Lake County, Ohio, and at South Madison
Seminary.  At the age of sixteen he left home, went to Buckhorn Furn-
ace, Lawrence Co., Ohio, engaged as salesman, and there he remained 
for the next twelve years, being in the meantime raised to the posi-
tion of assistant manager and bookkeeper.  In 1860 he came to Franklin
County, Mo., and afterward went to Pike's Peak on a mining expedition, 
but returned the same year and built the Robertsville grist and saw
mills, which he operated for four years, and then set up a store on 
the farm of James Johnson, in partnership with Edward J. Roberts.  He
continued at this for five years, after which he went to his farm, for
which he had traded his mill, and after remaining there one year re-
turned to the store on Johnson's farm, this time by himself, but at
the end of four years again returned to the farm.  Four years later he
formed a partnership with S. C. Frary in a general store, where they
continued nearly ten years, after which Mr. Spalding engaged in the 
same line of business with Henry Bruno.  In 1865 he married Miss Ann
Persinger, a native of Botetourt County, Va., born in 1839, and to 
them were born seven children, all living, four sons and three daugh-
ters.  He is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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