Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — the World RevolVes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Veteran Consul's "Record. Horatio J. Sprague, United States consul at Gibraltar, died recently at that place, aged 77. He was the oldest of the American representatives abroad and had been consul at Gibraltar for flfty-thre years. He was very popular among the residents. Mr. Sprague was the dean of the American consular service and his record at Gibraltar was altogether unique

and most eminently gratifying to the department at Washington. The aged consul was born at Gibraltar, Aug. 12 1823. His father was a Bostonian, who settled In the great fortress town soon after the war of 1812 and became a permanent resident In 1845 young Sprague was made consul' and remained In that office for fifty-three years. He served under fourteen presidents and personally entertained three of them who visited Gibraltar after leaving the White House. These were Fillmore, Pierce and urant The consul was a warm friend of Admiral Dewey and when the hero of Mapila stopped at the Rock on his way home Mr. Sprague took charge of him for a time and hospitably entertained the famous sailor. During the war of the rebellion Mr. Sprague was in a most delicate position, but he carried It off with great credit to himself and to the cause of the North. In the late Spanish war he was placed In even a more exacting situation, but he met It capably and well. Although he had visited this country but once he was a patriotic and enthusiastic American

HORATIO J. SPRAGUE.