Ceylon Spinney Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire 
From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net 

Surname: SPINNEY
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 812

   CEYLON SPINNEY, sheriff of Rockingham County, N. H., and
one of the county's most prominent citizens, was born in Portsmouth,
N. H., June 6, 1867, being one of the three children of Daniel H. and
Ruth Hall Spinney. The father, a native of Portsmouth also, followed
the vocation of a wood dealer until he retired from active business life.
His death occurred August 13, 1884. The mother of our subject is
spending her declining years with her son in comfort and ease.
   Ceylon Spinney obtained his elementary education in the public
schools of his native town and graduated from the high school in the
class of 1884. Immediately thereafter, being ambitious, he gave his
services, in the capacity of clerk, to the Boston & Maine Railroad, re-
maining thus occupied for two years. He next located on the farm,
where he continued until 1901, having been elected in 1900 as county
commissioner and qualifying for the same in 1901. He remained in
that office for four terms and until he was elected sheriff of Rockingham
County in 1908, qualifying for the office in 1909. He was re-elected
sheriff of Rockingham County in 1911 and again in 1913.
   Sheriff Spinney belongs to the Red Men, Lodge No. 16; also to the
B. P. 0. Elks, the St. John's Lodge of Masons, the Royal Arch Chap-
ter, De Witt Clinton Commandery, and Davenport Council No. 5. Po-
litically he is a staunch Republican and takes an active part in the 
politics of Rockingham County. He has under his supervision thirteen
deputies, they being scattered over the county. He is also interested
extensively with his partner, W. L. Conlon, in the insurance business.

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