Lassen-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Spalding, Zetus Newell 1819 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DR. ZETUS NEWELL SPALDING.—This gentleman is descended, in the eighth
generation, from Edward Spalding, through Andrew, Andrew, Andrew, Andrew,
Benjamin, and Simeon, his father, and was born in Albany, Vermont, August 13,
1819. He resided for a time in Craftsbury, Vermont, and in 1826 the family moved
to Peru, Ohio. He afterwards lived in North Norwich, subsequently named Havana,
where he received his education at the common school and Norwalk Academy. In
1840 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Hugh F. Proute of Monroeville,
Ohio, and finished under Dr. Moses C. Sanders of Maxville, Ohio, taking his
degree in 1846 at the Cleveland Medical College. In 1852 he left Roxana, Eaton
county, Michigan, for California, coming overland, and arriving in Sierra county
in August. He mined with varied success till the spring of 1855, and then went
into mercantile business at St. Louis in that county. In 1857 his business was
destroyed by fire. August 13, 1857, he settled on a ranch in Honey Lake valley,
and lived there seven years. He then sold out, and moved into Susanville, where
he has since resided. From 1857 to the close of the civil war, Dr. Spalding was
assistant surgeon of the U. S. army. August 11, 1857, he married Miss Mary A.
Brown, born in Sussex, England, July 16, 1840. They have been blessed with
twelve children, four of whom have been taken away by death: Ella Grace, born
April 18, 1858; Ida Frances, October 15, 1859; Inez Imogene, October 5, 1861;
Mary Alice, December 17, 1862; John Bridger, October 11, 1864; Wilber Neale,
August 15, 1866; Jennie E., November 22, 1868; Zetus Newell, April 27, 1870,
died October 22, 1879; Laura G., January 10, 1872, died September 8, 1877; Zella
May, November 20, 1874, died. November 2, 1879; Thomas Marsh, February 5, 1877,
died November 16, 1879; Clare E., April 20, 1878. They were all born in this
county. Inez married L. L. Harbet, May 29, 1881, and is living in Ukiah, California.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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