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BISHOP FRANKLIN SPENCER SPALDING PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: WH735

Scope and Contents

The Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding Papers consists of correspondence, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and one scrapbook of correspondence received. Material spans the years 1899-1939.

Three photograph albums containing photographs of several family members, vacations in Colorado and Massachusetts, mountains and mountain scenery in Colorado and Wyoming, ascent of the Grand Teton, Wyoming. Photographs and postcards span the years 1892-1916.

SERIES 1 PAPERS 1899-1939 BOX 1

The series consists of two scrapbooks, resolution, manuscript and correspondence. One scrapbook contains correspondence and the other includes newspaper clippings regarding his pamphlet, Joseph Smith as a Translator. The resolution and manuscript document the first ascent of the Grand Teton in 1898 by Franklin Spalding, William O. Owen, Frank L. Peterson and John Shive

SERIES 2 PHOTOGRAPHS 1892-1916 OVPHOTOBOX 1-2

Three photograph albums comprise this series. Black-and white and cyanotype photographs of mountain scenery fill two albums along with poetry hand-written on the pages. A small photo album contains black-and-white photographs and black-and-white color postcards of Nantucket Island, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the 1913 Presidential inaugural parade.

Dates

  • 1889-1939

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

Franklin Spencer Spalding was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1865. He relocated to Denver with his family in 1874, when his father, John Franklin Spalding, was elected the Episcopal Bishop of Colorado. He graduated from Princeton in 1887 and from the General Theological Seminary in 1891. He served as Rector for the All Saints Church of Denver and Principal of the Jarvis Military Academy in Denver, Colorado.

In 1897, he was called to serve at his father’s old parish in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1904, Franklin Spalding was elected the Episcopal Bishop of Utah. He served in Salt Lake City as Bishop from 1904-1914. While serving as Bishop in 1912, he wrote the pamphlet Joseph Smith Jr. as a Translator. The pamphlet, considered controversial, instigated an array of newspaper articles resulting in numerous letters to Bishop Franklin Spalding. He collected the newspaper articles and saved the letters to compile two scrapbooks.

Franklin Spalding was one of the charter members of the Rocky Mountain Club, when it organized in 1896. He and four others were recognized as the first to climb the Grand Teton in 1898.

Bishop Franklin Spalding died at the age of 49 on Sept. 25, 1914 when stuck by an automobile in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The source of the material is unknown.

SELECTION OF RELATED MATERIAL

The Western History/Genealogy Department has additional material on the Spalding family including:

Joseph Smith Jr. as a Translator by Bishop Franklin S. Spalding

C289.311 S734jo

Related Materials

Alice L. Ingersoll Papers

C MSS -M290

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The Answer of the Dean and Vestry of the Cathedral of St. John's, Denver to the Charges Alleged Against them by the Bishop of Colorado by Henry M. Hart

C283.7881 S143ha

Related Materials

Elisabeth Spalding Papers

C MSS WH14

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Bishop John F. Spalding and Lavinia Spalding Papers

C MSS WH738

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John F. Spalding, Bishop of Colorado, 1874-1902: Outline of the Early History of the Episcopal Church in Denver compiled by William M. Spalding

C283.78883 S743jo

Related Materials

Recollections and Reflections, Denver 50 Years Ago by Lavinia Spalding

C987.81 S734re

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Sarah Griswold Spalding, Oral History [manuscript] January 21, 1959

C MSS OH95

Related Materials

Spalding Memorial; A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding, of Massachusetts Bay, and his Descendants by Samuel J. Spalding

G929.2 S734sp

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Set of glass slides of southwestern scenes

C Photo Collection 1

DATE COMPLETED:

June 2001

Revised June 2002, October 2009

PROCESSED BY:

Ellen Zazzarino

REVISED AND ENCODED BY:

Merrie Jo Schroeder

Ellen Zazzarino

Ann Brown

Title
BISHOP FRANKLIN SPENCER SPALDING PAPERS
Date
REVISED 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository

Contact:
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Denver CO 80204 United States