Diplomat. Consul to Hawaii. Established Cable between U.S. and Hawaii
Graduated Ohio Wesleyan University 1858
Served with Seventh N.Y. Infantry during the Civil War, later commanding the 27th Ohio infantry.
First went to Hawaii as confidential agent for the State Department, and later as Consul. Represented the Hawaiian government at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1889 and received the French Legion of Honor. In 1896 he was Charge d'Affaires at the Hawaiian Embassy in Belgium. Served as American Consul at Honolulu under Hawaii's Kings Kamehameha V and Kalakaua.
Lived on Kauai and Niihau in the 1890s
COL. Z. S. SPALDING, CABLE SPONSOR, DIES
Civil War Veteran Also Developed Hawaiian Sugar Fields.
The survivors of the old Seventh Regiment in the Civil War lost an active associate, a diplomat and a pioneer, in the death of Col. Zephaniah Swift Spaldin in Pasadena, Cal., Sunday, at 89.
The Hawaiian Islands drew Colonel Spalding's attention immediately after the Civil War when he was appointed confidential agent for the State Department. As an owner of large sugar plantations there he set about developing the industry and remained in it for more than a quarter century. He manufactured sugar in partnership with two kings of the Islands.
The building and maintaining of a cable between America and Hawaii was begun by Col. Spalding when in 1895 he obtained a subsidy of $40,000 toward his project.
The colonel is survived by three daughters, two sons and nine grandchildren...
Graduated Ohio Wesleyan University 1858
Served with Seventh N.Y. Infantry during the Civil War, later commanding the 27th Ohio infantry.
First went to Hawaii as confidential agent for the State Department, and later as Consul. Represented the Hawaiian government at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1889 and received the French Legion of Honor. In 1896 he was Charge d'Affaires at the Hawaiian Embassy in Belgium. Served as American Consul at Honolulu under Hawaii's Kings Kamehameha V and Kalakaua.
Lived on Kauai and Niihau in the 1890s
COL. Z. S. SPALDING, CABLE SPONSOR, DIES
Civil War Veteran Also Developed Hawaiian Sugar Fields.
The survivors of the old Seventh Regiment in the Civil War lost an active associate, a diplomat and a pioneer, in the death of Col. Zephaniah Swift Spaldin in Pasadena, Cal., Sunday, at 89.
The Hawaiian Islands drew Colonel Spalding's attention immediately after the Civil War when he was appointed confidential agent for the State Department. As an owner of large sugar plantations there he set about developing the industry and remained in it for more than a quarter century. He manufactured sugar in partnership with two kings of the Islands.
The building and maintaining of a cable between America and Hawaii was begun by Col. Spalding when in 1895 he obtained a subsidy of $40,000 toward his project.
The colonel is survived by three daughters, two sons and nine grandchildren...
Diplomat. Consul to Hawaii. Established Cable between U.S. and Hawaii
Graduated Ohio Wesleyan University 1858
Served with Seventh N.Y. Infantry during the Civil War, later commanding the 27th Ohio infantry.
First went to Hawaii as confidential agent for the State Department, and later as Consul. Represented the Hawaiian government at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1889 and received the French Legion of Honor. In 1896 he was Charge d'Affaires at the Hawaiian Embassy in Belgium. Served as American Consul at Honolulu under Hawaii's Kings Kamehameha V and Kalakaua.
Lived on Kauai and Niihau in the 1890s
COL. Z. S. SPALDING, CABLE SPONSOR, DIES
Civil War Veteran Also Developed Hawaiian Sugar Fields.
The survivors of the old Seventh Regiment in the Civil War lost an active associate, a diplomat and a pioneer, in the death of Col. Zephaniah Swift Spaldin in Pasadena, Cal., Sunday, at 89.
The Hawaiian Islands drew Colonel Spalding's attention immediately after the Civil War when he was appointed confidential agent for the State Department. As an owner of large sugar plantations there he set about developing the industry and remained in it for more than a quarter century. He manufactured sugar in partnership with two kings of the Islands.
The building and maintaining of a cable between America and Hawaii was begun by Col. Spalding when in 1895 he obtained a subsidy of $40,000 toward his project.
The colonel is survived by three daughters, two sons and nine grandchildren...
Graduated Ohio Wesleyan University 1858
Served with Seventh N.Y. Infantry during the Civil War, later commanding the 27th Ohio infantry.
First went to Hawaii as confidential agent for the State Department, and later as Consul. Represented the Hawaiian government at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1889 and received the French Legion of Honor. In 1896 he was Charge d'Affaires at the Hawaiian Embassy in Belgium. Served as American Consul at Honolulu under Hawaii's Kings Kamehameha V and Kalakaua.
Lived on Kauai and Niihau in the 1890s
COL. Z. S. SPALDING, CABLE SPONSOR, DIES
Civil War Veteran Also Developed Hawaiian Sugar Fields.
The survivors of the old Seventh Regiment in the Civil War lost an active associate, a diplomat and a pioneer, in the death of Col. Zephaniah Swift Spaldin in Pasadena, Cal., Sunday, at 89.
The Hawaiian Islands drew Colonel Spalding's attention immediately after the Civil War when he was appointed confidential agent for the State Department. As an owner of large sugar plantations there he set about developing the industry and remained in it for more than a quarter century. He manufactured sugar in partnership with two kings of the Islands.
The building and maintaining of a cable between America and Hawaii was begun by Col. Spalding when in 1895 he obtained a subsidy of $40,000 toward his project.
The colonel is survived by three daughters, two sons and nine grandchildren...
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