William Buell Sprague (1795–1876)
Author of Lectures on Revivals
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Annals of the American pulpit;: Or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations,… (1857) 5 copies
Annals of the American Pulpit; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations,… (1857) 3 copies
Annals of the American Episcopal Pulpit; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished Clergymen of the Episcopal Church in (2010) 3 copies
An Address Delivered August 5, 1846, Before The Hermean Society Of Geneva College... (2011) 2 copies
Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. 3: Or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various… (2015) 2 copies
Sermons by the Late Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D.D, Vol. 2: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of His Life (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copy
Sermons by the Late Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D. D, Vol. 1: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of His Life (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 copy
Sermon, before The Bible, Foreign Missionary, and Education Societies of the County of Hampden. 1 copy
Lectures Illustrating The Contrast Between True Christianity And Various Other Systems (1837) (2010) 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1795-10-16
- Date of death
- 1876-05-07
- Burial location
- Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Place of death
- Flushing, New York, USA
- Education
- Yale College
- Short biography
- Sprague was also a collector of historical documents and pamphlets and became the first person ever to gather a complete set of the autographs of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. He completed this task by February, 1833, according to correspondence with friend Jared Sparks at about that time. He also gathered a collection of the signatures of all of the members of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States in 1787, and a complete set of the autographs of the Presidents of the United States and all the officers of the United States government during the administrations of Presidents Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams. This latter collection included signatures of the Presidents, Vice Presidents, all the members of the President’s Cabinet, and all of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court and all of the foreign ministers. Further, he collected the signatures of all the military officers involved in the American revolutionary war, from all nations, during the whole war. He collected signatures of great men of the Reformation and great skeptics. He even owned a copy of the autograph by Saint Augustine. He was America's foremost philographer by the time of his death. His autographs, numbering nearly 100,000, probably the largest private collection in the world at that time, were left to his son.
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- ISBNs
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The First is IX Lectures Covering 287 Pages
The Second Part is the Appendix which are twenty letters reflecting on Authenticating The History of Revivals, and secondly To ascertain ho revivals have been conducted. The appendix is 165 pages in Length