BIO: John W. SPAYD, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 349.
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  SPAYD, J. W., born December 10, 1847, belongs to one of the oldest 
and best known families in Dauphin county, and is the only son of 
Johnathan Spayd, a well-known business man and retired farmer.  He 
attended an academy at Berrysburg and a college at Selins Grove, Pa.  
After devoting more than twenty years of his life to the teacher's 
profession, he entered the publishing business with E. L. Kellogg & 
Co., New York and Chicago, as manager of the firm's extensive business 
in Pennsylvania.  This firm publishes the Teacher's Institute, New York 
School Journal, and Primary Education, as well as a large list of 
teacher's educational works.  He is also connected with the S. M. Hess 
& Bro. Fertilizer Company of Reading and Philadelphia.  He has two 
sons, Clarence E., editor of the Harrisburg Star-Independent, and 
Charles H., a student at Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pa.  He 
lives at No. 45 North Thirteenth street, Harrisburg.  Before removing 
to the Capital city he was for many years postmaster at Carsonville, 
Dauphin county.  His father succeeded him as postmaster when he left 
that locality.  Mr. Spayd has always been a Republican, as has also 
been his father, who for forty years or more figured prominently in the 
county politics.  Father and son are Lutherans, the latter being a 
member of Memorial Lutheran church, Fifteenth and Shoop streets, 
Harrisburg.  Jonathan Spayd was born July 25, 1825, and spent fifty-
seven years of his life in this county, all but a few years having been 
a resident on his fine farm in Powell's Valley, near Carsonville.  
Recently he and wife removed to Harrisburg, making their home with 
their son John W., his health having begun to fail.  For more than 
forty years he was an officer of the Lutheran church near his home, and 
both gentlemen are highly respected citizens.