Graduate of the University of Michigan. In In 1865, he and his father E. H. Spalding, founded the Spalding Commercial College in Kansas City Missouri. Parents were Ephraim Hall and Jane (McCormick) Spalding from Monroe County, NY.
The Kansas City Times, August 18, 1916:
END TO JAMES F. SPALDING
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE HEAD DIED AT HOME LAST NIGHT
Coming to Kansas City in 1865, Business Educator Established School With Seven Pupils – Thirty Thousand Have Attended. The founder of the first school in Kansas City, James F. Spalding, president of Spalding's Commercial College, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home, 2305 Tracy Avenue. He was 81 years old. He had been in failing health since last January as the result of a malady of fifteen years' standing. All of the memberis of his Immediate family were at his bedside at the end.
Spalding's College was founded October 25, 1865, when Kansas City had no public school system. Seven pupils composed the first class that met in a small building at Second and Main streets. Since then nearly thirty thousand pupils have attended the college. The site for the present 3-story building at Tenth and Oak streets was bought in 1866 from Judge Thomas A. Smart for $350. In the last eight years Mr. Spalding acted only in an advisory capacity in the affairs of the college, which has been managed by his son, George E. Spalding. He came to Kansas City in 1865 from Detroit. The trip up the river from St. Louis, on the famous Black Eagle steamer, required thirteen days. Two years later he made the prediction: "This city is destined, by reason of its superior facilities for river and inland commerce, to become the great railroad center and commercial emporium of the West."
On, the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the college last December, Mr. Spalding made another prophecy, in which he said:"Those who live to see this city twenty-five years from now will see a city of a million, solid with business houses of every type in the district between Broadway and Troost, and south past the Union Station." He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1860. He taught for a time in the high School at Ann Arbor and business colleges in Detroit before coming to Kansas City. Mr. Spalding was recognized as an authority in business training.
A MASON OF HIGH DEGREE.
Mr. Spalding was a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Commercial Club.
Survivors besides his son, George, are his widow, Mrs. Jeanette Spalding; daughter, Miss Mary J. Spalding of Kansas City, and two sons, D. R. Spalding,
former member of the fire and water board and speaker of the lower house of the city council; Frank C. Spalding, president of the United States National Bank in San Diego, Cal., and a brother, William A. Spalding of Los Angeles.
The Kansas City Times, August 18, 1916:
END TO JAMES F. SPALDING
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE HEAD DIED AT HOME LAST NIGHT
Coming to Kansas City in 1865, Business Educator Established School With Seven Pupils – Thirty Thousand Have Attended. The founder of the first school in Kansas City, James F. Spalding, president of Spalding's Commercial College, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home, 2305 Tracy Avenue. He was 81 years old. He had been in failing health since last January as the result of a malady of fifteen years' standing. All of the memberis of his Immediate family were at his bedside at the end.
Spalding's College was founded October 25, 1865, when Kansas City had no public school system. Seven pupils composed the first class that met in a small building at Second and Main streets. Since then nearly thirty thousand pupils have attended the college. The site for the present 3-story building at Tenth and Oak streets was bought in 1866 from Judge Thomas A. Smart for $350. In the last eight years Mr. Spalding acted only in an advisory capacity in the affairs of the college, which has been managed by his son, George E. Spalding. He came to Kansas City in 1865 from Detroit. The trip up the river from St. Louis, on the famous Black Eagle steamer, required thirteen days. Two years later he made the prediction: "This city is destined, by reason of its superior facilities for river and inland commerce, to become the great railroad center and commercial emporium of the West."
On, the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the college last December, Mr. Spalding made another prophecy, in which he said:"Those who live to see this city twenty-five years from now will see a city of a million, solid with business houses of every type in the district between Broadway and Troost, and south past the Union Station." He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1860. He taught for a time in the high School at Ann Arbor and business colleges in Detroit before coming to Kansas City. Mr. Spalding was recognized as an authority in business training.
A MASON OF HIGH DEGREE.
Mr. Spalding was a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Commercial Club.
Survivors besides his son, George, are his widow, Mrs. Jeanette Spalding; daughter, Miss Mary J. Spalding of Kansas City, and two sons, D. R. Spalding,
former member of the fire and water board and speaker of the lower house of the city council; Frank C. Spalding, president of the United States National Bank in San Diego, Cal., and a brother, William A. Spalding of Los Angeles.
Graduate of the University of Michigan. In In 1865, he and his father E. H. Spalding, founded the Spalding Commercial College in Kansas City Missouri. Parents were Ephraim Hall and Jane (McCormick) Spalding from Monroe County, NY.
The Kansas City Times, August 18, 1916:
END TO JAMES F. SPALDING
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE HEAD DIED AT HOME LAST NIGHT
Coming to Kansas City in 1865, Business Educator Established School With Seven Pupils – Thirty Thousand Have Attended. The founder of the first school in Kansas City, James F. Spalding, president of Spalding's Commercial College, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home, 2305 Tracy Avenue. He was 81 years old. He had been in failing health since last January as the result of a malady of fifteen years' standing. All of the memberis of his Immediate family were at his bedside at the end.
Spalding's College was founded October 25, 1865, when Kansas City had no public school system. Seven pupils composed the first class that met in a small building at Second and Main streets. Since then nearly thirty thousand pupils have attended the college. The site for the present 3-story building at Tenth and Oak streets was bought in 1866 from Judge Thomas A. Smart for $350. In the last eight years Mr. Spalding acted only in an advisory capacity in the affairs of the college, which has been managed by his son, George E. Spalding. He came to Kansas City in 1865 from Detroit. The trip up the river from St. Louis, on the famous Black Eagle steamer, required thirteen days. Two years later he made the prediction: "This city is destined, by reason of its superior facilities for river and inland commerce, to become the great railroad center and commercial emporium of the West."
On, the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the college last December, Mr. Spalding made another prophecy, in which he said:"Those who live to see this city twenty-five years from now will see a city of a million, solid with business houses of every type in the district between Broadway and Troost, and south past the Union Station." He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1860. He taught for a time in the high School at Ann Arbor and business colleges in Detroit before coming to Kansas City. Mr. Spalding was recognized as an authority in business training.
A MASON OF HIGH DEGREE.
Mr. Spalding was a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Commercial Club.
Survivors besides his son, George, are his widow, Mrs. Jeanette Spalding; daughter, Miss Mary J. Spalding of Kansas City, and two sons, D. R. Spalding,
former member of the fire and water board and speaker of the lower house of the city council; Frank C. Spalding, president of the United States National Bank in San Diego, Cal., and a brother, William A. Spalding of Los Angeles.
The Kansas City Times, August 18, 1916:
END TO JAMES F. SPALDING
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE HEAD DIED AT HOME LAST NIGHT
Coming to Kansas City in 1865, Business Educator Established School With Seven Pupils – Thirty Thousand Have Attended. The founder of the first school in Kansas City, James F. Spalding, president of Spalding's Commercial College, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home, 2305 Tracy Avenue. He was 81 years old. He had been in failing health since last January as the result of a malady of fifteen years' standing. All of the memberis of his Immediate family were at his bedside at the end.
Spalding's College was founded October 25, 1865, when Kansas City had no public school system. Seven pupils composed the first class that met in a small building at Second and Main streets. Since then nearly thirty thousand pupils have attended the college. The site for the present 3-story building at Tenth and Oak streets was bought in 1866 from Judge Thomas A. Smart for $350. In the last eight years Mr. Spalding acted only in an advisory capacity in the affairs of the college, which has been managed by his son, George E. Spalding. He came to Kansas City in 1865 from Detroit. The trip up the river from St. Louis, on the famous Black Eagle steamer, required thirteen days. Two years later he made the prediction: "This city is destined, by reason of its superior facilities for river and inland commerce, to become the great railroad center and commercial emporium of the West."
On, the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the college last December, Mr. Spalding made another prophecy, in which he said:"Those who live to see this city twenty-five years from now will see a city of a million, solid with business houses of every type in the district between Broadway and Troost, and south past the Union Station." He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1860. He taught for a time in the high School at Ann Arbor and business colleges in Detroit before coming to Kansas City. Mr. Spalding was recognized as an authority in business training.
A MASON OF HIGH DEGREE.
Mr. Spalding was a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Commercial Club.
Survivors besides his son, George, are his widow, Mrs. Jeanette Spalding; daughter, Miss Mary J. Spalding of Kansas City, and two sons, D. R. Spalding,
former member of the fire and water board and speaker of the lower house of the city council; Frank C. Spalding, president of the United States National Bank in San Diego, Cal., and a brother, William A. Spalding of Los Angeles.
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