The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . an Society and The Worces-ter vSociety of Antiquity. Withthe Masonic order he has beenprominently connected for nearlyhalf a century; was the first masterof Montacute Lodge; district dep-uty grand master, eleventh district, 1874; R. P. G. M., Grand Council ofRoyal and Select Masters of Massachusetts, 1867; grand junior wardenand grand senior warden of the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts andRhode Island; and was once elected eminent commander of WorcesterCounty Commandery, Knights Templars, but declined installation. Hewas
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . an Society and The Worces-ter vSociety of Antiquity. Withthe Masonic order he has beenprominently connected for nearlyhalf a century; was the first masterof Montacute Lodge; district dep-uty grand master, eleventh district, 1874; R. P. G. M., Grand Council ofRoyal and Select Masters of Massachusetts, 1867; grand junior wardenand grand senior warden of the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts andRhode Island; and was once elected eminent commander of WorcesterCounty Commandery, Knights Templars, but declined installation. Hewas for several years the only 11° Mason in Worcester, and is now theeldest of three in this city who have reached that honor. Mr. Smith married, April 18, 1849, Eliza Adeline Howe of Worcester,and of this union five children were born, two of whom survive. Augustus Brown Reed Sprague* was born in Ware, Massachusetts, March 7,1827, son of Lee and Lucia (Snow) Sprague. His ancestors on both sideswere of Puritan stock, his maternal grandmother, Alice Alden, being in the. WILLIAM A. SMITH. ^See portrait on page 72. The Worcester of 1898. 753 sixth generation in direct line from John Alden who came over in theJIayflower. The subject of this sketch received his education in publicand private schools. In 1842 he came to Worcester and entered the employof H. B. Claflin, afterward the famous New York merchant. Later he wasfor a time with H. H. Chamberlin, who founded the present establishmentof Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company. He afterward engaged in mer-cantile business for himself, and as a partner with his father in the firm ofLee Sprague & Co. He reached his majority and cast his first vote in 1S48. He joined theWorcester Guards at the age of seventeen, and served as private, non-com-missioned and commissioned officer, beginning a military career that madehim of service to his country in her greatest need. He was adjutant of the Eighth Regiment, and brigade-major and inspectorof the
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