from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 176) pp. LXXX - LXXXI. "ALFRED C. SPARKS - Born Wilmington, Del., where he also learned the printing trade. He has worked in Philadelphia, Pa., and in Providence since 1889; now employed on Tribune. EDGAR T. SPENCER - Born Glen's Falls, N. Y.; learned printing trade at Albany, N. Y., where he joined the Typographical Union in 1867; worked at his trade in New York city and Boston; came to Providence in 1877; employed on the Journal until 1895; at present (1907) publisher of Hope Valley Advertiser; member of Senate Lodge, F. and A. M., 456, Glen's Falls, N. Y.; Franklin R. A. Chapter, No. 7, Hope Valley, R. I.; Westminster Lodge No. 27, I. O. O. F., Providence; joined Providence Union at its reorganization, April 8, 1883. B. SPRANGER - Initiated into Providence Union May 26, 1901. He was then 44 years of age, and had learned printing in Milwaukee, Wis., beginning in 1891. FRANK E. STACKPOLE - Born in Newmarket, N. H., in 1855; learned printing in that town, beginning in 1873; admitted to Providence Union by card May 5, 1904. CHARLES STANSFIELD - Born in 1867; learned printing in England; initiated into Providence union Sept. 25, 1887; last heard of in 1897 in Bangor, Me., where he was a member of No. 446. WILLIAM J. STANTON - Died at R. I. Hospital May 23, 1885, after an illness of a few days. Rev. Fr. Clune sang a requiem high mass at the Church of the Assumption over the remains, and he was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery on Douglas avenue, four of his former associates in the Journal composing room acting as bearers. FREDERICK W. STEARNS - Born Mansfield, Mass., Jan. 8, 1847. He graduated from high school at 16; took up the study of medicine with his father, who was a surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After the Civil war he learned printing, beginning at Stoughton, Mass.; worked in Providence, on the Evening Press, in 1868. The morning fire destroyed that office in December of that year he missed an early train from Milford, where he resided, and thereby escaped the ordeal of climbing down the chain. Mr. Stearns was initiated into Boston Typographical Union, No. 13, in 1869, while working in that city at Alfred Mudge's. He went to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1872. He is a charter member of Cream City Typographical Union, No. 23; was secretary for eight years; five years delegate to the Federated Trades' Council, acting as its secretary and treasurer several terms; delegate from Milwaukee to organize the American Federation of Labor in Washington, D. C.; delegate to the I. T. U. conventions at Buffalo and Syracuse; served two years as President of Milwaukee Union, and in that capacity opened the 47th session of the I. T. U. in Milwaukee in 1900. Mr. Stearns joined the Knights of Labor in 1885 and held many important offices in that organization. In politics, Mr. Stearns is a Populist. His grandfather, Isaac Stearns, was a member of the printing firm of Stearns & Wheaton in Providence in 1830, and publisher and editor of the Free Press, one of the first daily newspapers printed in this city. Isaac Stearns was not a practical printer. He was born in Mansfield, Mass., Jan. 18, 1790, and died June 16, 1879. Fred W. Stearns was editor of the Milwaukee Union Signal, a labor paper, in 1904." continued in part 177.