Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, January 1, 1881, p. 4. NOTE: Consider Spauling as a spelling variant of Spalding. Neway Notes from Seymour Special to the Sentinel: Seymour, Indiana, December 31-John Spalding, for several years a clerk in a grocery and provision store here but a number of years ago a railroader, left this evening for Louisville, Ky. Tomorrow he takes the position of freight conductor on the Short Line Railroad. He is well known in railroad circles and highly esteemed.