The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e num-ber of editorial leaders for the Watchman, and inJanuary, 1881, established the New HampshireJournal, the state organ of the Congregationalists,and was its editor for several


The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e num-ber of editorial leaders for the Watchman, and inJanuary, 1881, established the New HampshireJournal, the state organ of the Congregationalists,and was its editor for several years. He was chair-man of the school committee of Dover, presidentof the trustees of the State Normal school, memberof the Constitutional convention of New Hamp-shire, in 1877 representative of the city of Dover inthe state legislature, and chaplain of that body. Hewas also trustee of the New Hampshire missionarysociety, and of the State orphans home. Mr. Spal-ding accepted a call to tlie Franklin street Congrega-tional church at Manchester, N. H., in 1883. and tothe First Presbyterian church at Syracuse, N. Y., in1885, where he has since been elected trustee of Au-burn theological seminary, and of B[amilton college,and vice-president of the American tract degree of was conferred upon himby Dartmouth college in 1878. Dr. Spalding haspublished several valuable religious and OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 257


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