Selected Families and Individuals

They had the following children.

		M	i	Leander Courtland Spooner was born on 13 Nov 1804. He died on 30 Mar 1878.
		M	ii	William Brown Spooner was born on 20 Apr 1806 in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 28 Oct 1880.
		M	iii	Lysander Spooner was born on 19 Jan 1808 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 17 May 1887 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. The following is excerpted from an obituary of Spooner that appeared in the Boston Daily Globe of May 18, 1887. Yesterday Afternoon, at 12.50 o'clock, one of the most remarkable men who has ever walked the streets of Boston departed this life at his residence, 109 Myrtle street. His name, Lysander Spooner [1808-1887], is known to but a few?to fewer perhaps than 30 years ago?but, as John Boyle O'Reilly says, it will some day be honored by millions. Mr. Spooner was in his eightieth year, having been born in Athol January 19,1808. A farmer's boy, he left agricultural life on becoming a man, and at the age of 25 entered the law office of John Davis in Worcester, continuing his studies later with another distinguished lawyer of the same city, Charles Allen. At that time there was a law on the statute books requiring three years' extra study from men not college bred as a condition of admission to the bar. Then it was that he first displayed that preference for Natural Justice over artificial legislation which ever characterized him in after life. In defiance of the statute, he opened a law office in Worcester, and began his career as a pamphleteer by supplying each member of the Legislature with an address which made the objectionable statute so ridiculous that it was straightaway repealed.... Mr. Spooner was a veteran of the Civil War, and in connection with it he produced the work which won greater fame than any other he ever wrote, his remarkable essay on "The Unconstitutionality of Slavery." His conclusions were bitterly opposed by the Garrisonians, who held that the Constitution was "an agreement with death and a covenant with hell," but Mr. Spooner, though denying the authority of the Constitution even more fundamentally than Garrison, maintained?and successfully, it is now generally believed ?that it contained no sanction of the institution of slavery. His  book became the text-book of the Liberty party, and was warmly supported by Gerrit Smith, Elizur Wright, and all the anti-Garrisonians. Another important work was his treatise on "Trial by Jury," in which he showed that juries should be drawn by lot from the whole body of citizens, and that they should always be judges of the law as well as of the facts. Hear the following long titles: "Natural Law, or the Science if Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; Showing That All Legislation Whatever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation and a Crime," and "A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People." The latter, which is no in pamphlet, but was originally published in the Anarchist organ, Liberty, is the greatest he every wrote in the opinion of his friends. Though Mr. Spooner did not call himself an Anarchist, his political and financial views coincided more nearly with those of the Individualistic Anarchists than with those of any other school. Upon almost every subject, this large-hearted man was at odds with his day and generation. He was intensely in earnest and far in advance of the average sentiment. While he was possessed of many lovable qualities, his personality was so pronounced and his convictions of duty so strong that he had few lasting affiliations with friends. But such as he had were of the strongest. His contemporaries one and all bear glad testimony to his uncompromising honesty and integrity of purpose and to the transcendent nobility of his manhood.
		F	iv	Abigail Spooner was born on 10 Sep 1811 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.
		M	v	Samuel Wing Spooner was born on 23 Feb 1813. He died in UNKNOWN.
		M	vi	Alexander Kutousoff Spooner was born on 13 Jan 1815. He died in UNKNOWN.
		F	vii	Lucy Spooner was born on 4 Nov 1818 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 14 Nov 1855.
		F	viii	Catherine Spooner was born on 11 Jan 1821. She died on 12 Dec 1869.
		M	ix	Charles Milton Spooner was born on 1 May 1827. He died on 17 Mar 1872.

They had the following children.

		F	i	Eva Maria Spooner was born on 25 Mar 1854 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.
		F	ii	Ida Clare Spooner was born on 2 Nov 1864 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.

They had the following children.

		F	i	Lizzie H. Spooner was born on 19 Oct 1838. She died in UNKNOWN.
		M	ii	Frederick B. Spooner was born on 6 Mar 1841. He died in UNKNOWN.
		F	iii	Catharine H. Spooner was born on 17 Jun 1843. She died in UNKNOWN.
		F	iv	Dollie J. B. Spooner was born on 8 Dec 1847. She died in UNKNOWN.
		F	v	Flora L. Spooner was born on 11 Mar 1855. She died in UNKNOWN.

They had the following children.

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Emma Spooner Moody was born on 20 Oct 1848 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.

They had the following children.

		F	i	Edna Louisa Spooner 1 was born on 3 Dec 1852 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.
		M	ii	Frank Adams Spooner 1 was born on 1 Jun 1855 in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in UNKNOWN.

They had the following children.

		F	i	Eunice B. Blakslee was born on 23 Oct 1864 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.
		M	ii	William D. Blakslee was born on 18 Mar 1866 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA. He died in UNKNOWN.

They had the following children.

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Gertrude Flora Manville was born on 10 Jun 1874 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA. She died in UNKNOWN.

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