Sprague, Albert Arnold (1874-1946)

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Jane Addams et al. to Bryan Lathrop, December 15, 1905

Albert Arnold Sprague to Julius Rosenwald, December 4, 1926

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Board of Governors and Chicago Committee list, ca. June 1926

Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election, ca. June 1926

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Birth Date

1874-05-13

Death Date

1946-04-06

Birthplace

Chicago, IL

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Albert A. Sprague was born in 1874 in Chicago. During the Civil War, Sprague, his brother Otho, and Ezra J. Warner founded a grocery store named Sprague, Warner & Co., and by 1909 this store was one of the top wholesale grocery stores in the United States. Sprague was also the Third Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the Field Museum of Natural History. He was also an Honorary Member of the Museum. When his brother died, Sprague created the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute in 1911, serving as its president. He was also a colonel.

Sprague was married to Frances Fidelia Dibblee, and they had two children together: Albert Jr. and Laura. Sprague died in 1946.