Born: January 18, 1841 in Norwich, CT Died: May 25, 1894 in Jackson, MS
Journalist. Appointed major in the Madison County militia in 1873. See Wikipedia entry for more extensive biography.
“Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Spelman was educated in public schools there and in New York City. On the eve of the Civil War, he worked as a correspondent for the Anglo-African in New York and contributed to other black newspapers… He came to Mississippi in 1868 as an employee of the Freedmen’s Bureau and a correspondent for the New York Tribune. With James D. Lynch, he published the Jackson Colored Citizen, around 1868-70.”
(Eric Foner, Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction, 1993)
New-York Tribune, February 20, 1864Boston Evening Transcript, Mar 1864 The Liberator, December 9, 1864New-York Tribune, January 29, 1866Brooklyn Union, March 9, 1866Brooklyn Eagle, March 10, 1866New York Daily Herald, October 4, 1866New York Daily Herald, October 9, 1866New-York Tribune, November 5, 1866Hinds County Gazette, June 7, 1871Weekly Louisianian, April 11, 1872Times-Picayune, April 12, 1872New National Era, April 3, 1873Clarion-Ledger, October 2, 1873Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874Tributes to Charles Sumner, 1874Weekly Democrat-Times, Nov 21, 1874Clarion-Ledger, March 4, 1875Chronicle-Star, March 13, 1875Canton Mail, March 13, 1875Canton Mail, April 10, 1875Alcorn leadership dispute, May 1875Canton Mail, June 5, 1875The American Citizen, April 1, 1876Clarion-Ledger, September 15, 1880US Treasury, 1881 Tax CollectorsWeekly Commercial Herald, Sep 25, 1885Clarion-Ledger, November 16, 1887Clarion-Ledger, February 16, 1888Yazoo Herald, June 6, 1890
