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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 04-28-2004 01:49 PM
  
A friend of mine has a small coin silver pitcher from the 1850s engraved “Fayette Board of Agriculture” and under this in larger print the word “PREMIUM”. The maker’s or retailer’s mark is almost obliterated, but appears to be H.S. Sprague. Has anyone any information on H.S. Sprague? IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 04-28-2004 02:25 PM
There is an H.S.Sprague listed in Ensko II, so your reading of the name is correct, but there is no location given. Many of these numerous agricultural prizes of the mid- and later 19th Century were probably obtained from local retailers who imported them from Eastern manufacturers, so even if you were able to locate the retailer, there could be no telling who made it originally. IP: Logged |
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Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 |
posted 04-28-2004 03:51 PM
My guess is this is by the Hezekiah S. Sprague identified by our moderator William Voss as a jeweler known to have worked c 1840-1865 in Newark. For his comments, see the footnotes on The Sprague Project [sprague-database.org/02-04/f12291.htm#f21026 - link gone from the Internet] IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 04-28-2004 07:16 PM
That Newark is Newark, Ohio, the seat of Licking County. There are Fayette Counties in no less than eleven states, but there is one in Ohio; its county seat is some 50 miles southwest of Newark, on the other side of the much larger city of Columbus (a closer and more likely place to go to buy a silver item), but Hezekiah could have had contacts in Fayette County, so it could be that he is the one who marked the pitcher. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 04-28-2004 08:45 PM
Thanks for the information. I did look at several of the many jweb sites for the "Fayette" counties and one said they were named after Marquis de Lafayette. I guess they all dropped the La and shortened the name to Fayette. Lafayette’s trip back to the United States some 50 years after the war must have been quite an event. He was given money, land and a trip throughout the states in honor of the help he provided us in defeating the British. I think it was Henry Clay who made the remark that “Even Republicans are not always ungrateful”. Thanks again. IP: Logged |
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Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 |
posted 04-29-2004 10:17 AM
WEV: Here's a further mention of Hezekiah S. Sprague which confirms he was born earlier and also that he arrived in Newark in 1828. It's from the HISTORY OF LICKING COUNTY HISTORY OF LICKING COUNTY - 733 "SPRAGUE, HENRY .D., lawyer.-Office on the north side of public. square, Newark. Mr. Sprague was born near Cooperstown, Otsego county, New York, February 11, 1817. His parents, Joseph and Mary A. Sprague, were of New England stock, having emigrated from Rhode Island and settled in New York near the close of the last century. He was the youngest of a family of six children. He enjoyed the advantages of a common school until he arrived at the age of thirteen years. He then came west, and arrived at Newark in October, 1830, where he found employment with his older brother, Hezekiah S. Sprague, the jeweler, who had settled in Newark a year or two before that time. He continued with his brother in that business until in 1840, when he commenced the study of law with George B. Smythe, attorney, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1842. He at once began the practice of his profession as one of the now well known firm of Smythe & Sprague, and soon became 'one of the prominent and successful lawyers of Newark." IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 08-26-2008 02:21 AM
Hezekiah's son William A who was born in Ohio in about 1848 is listed in the 1870 and 1880 U S Federal Census's for Newark, Ohio along with his father and family as an engraver. Following Hezekiah's death in 1886 his son carried on in the jewelry trade in Newark under the business name W A Sprague and advertised as "The Jeweler." [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 08-27-2008).] IP: Logged |
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