David Spraker (February 23, 1801 Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, New York — October 14, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Jost Spraker (1765–1848) and Catherine (Fraser) Spraker (1767–1843). He graduated from Union College in 1822. Then he studied law with Marcus T. Reynolds in Amsterdam, with Alfred Conkling in Albany and with Daniel Cady in Johnstown; was admitted to the bar in 1825; and commenced practice in

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. Until 1835, he was an associate judge of the Montgomery County Court. He was a member of the

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(4th D.) from 1836 to 1839, sitting in the 59th, 60th, 61st and

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s. In 1845, he married Harriet F. Rowan (c. 1825–1907), and they had six children. He was Postmaster of Canajoharie; a delegate to the

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s in

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; and President of the Canajoharie Academy, and the Montgomery County Insurance Company.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 131f and 145; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Caucuses of 1860''
by M. Halstead (Columbus OH, 1860; pg. 14)
''Post Office Directory''
(1856; pg. 115)

transcribed from ''The Illustrated History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties'' (1878); at NY Gen Web

at Family Tree Maker

External links

Silhouette of David Spraker
by Auguste Edouart (1839), at Smithsonian Institution {{DEFAULTSORT:Spraker, David 1801 births 1873 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Palatine, New York New York (state) postmasters New York (state) state court judges 19th-century American legislators 19th-century American judges