ALONZO SPAULDING of Aroostook Co, Maine

The source of the following is: "History of North
Washington" Published 1904 by: Western Histoircal
Publishing Company, Spokane, Washington 1904

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Alonzo Spaulding. it is with pleasure that we are
enabled to mention the subject of this article with
the deserving and worthy pioneers of this county.
Mr. Spaulding is also to be classed as a real
frontiersman during all his life, having done the
noble work of opening up different sections all
across the continent. He was born in Aroostook
county, Maine, on December 30, 1834, the son of
Daniel and Margaret Spaulding, natives of Maine
also. The family were on the frontier in Maine and
later came to Minnesota, landing where St. Paul now
is when there were but two or three houses in the
pace. Our subject received his education in the
various places where he lived and in Minnesota
learned the trades of carpenter and blacksmith. The
former occupied him for thirty years, and he has
wrought in various places and capacities. On March
10, 1862, he stepped to the enrollment place and
offered himself to fight for the honor of the flag
and defense of the country. He was in the Second
Minnesota Light Artillery and participated in the
battles of Stone River and Corinth. He was under
Rosecrans and Grant. Many skirmishes were in his
path and through it all he went safely until at the
battle of Stone River he was kicked by a horse which
dislocated his knee and for nine months he
languished in the hospital, being finally discharged
on account of disability on November 13, 1863. He
is now a member of the G.A.R. Returning home from
the war, Mr. Spaulding entered the industrial walks
of life and on July 4, 1864, he married Miss
Christina Langdon, a native of Maine. To them were
born four children, Mrs. Ida M. Driver, in Stearns
county, Minnesota; Edward, deceased; Mrs. Sarah J.
Goodner, of Stearns county, Minnesota; Alonzo G.,
who married Miss Florence Crenshaw and now owns a
fine farm four miles east from Fruitland, where our
subject lives. The farm is well supplied with good
improvements as a nice six-room residence, large
barn and so forth. Alonzo G. has one child, Erven
A. Our subject has been a Master Mason for over
twenty years. He has seen the hardships and
deprivations of the frontier from childhood up and
these things have developed in him a sturdy self-
reliance and strength that have made him a man of
influence and stability.