Descendants of John SPOONER
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William SPOONER
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Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts,
Including Waltham and Weston, Page 719: Dr. WILLIAM SPOONER, b. in Boston, Mar. 24, 1760, son of John, Jr., and Hannah (Jones) Spooner; gr. son of John Spooner, who came from England, and of John Jones, Esq.; grad. Harv. Coll., 1778; studied medicine with Dr Samuel Danforth, of Boston, and was a surgeon in ships of war, in 1781-2. In 1782, he went to Edinburgh to complete his professional studies, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1785. He returned to Boston in 1786, and immediately commenced the practice of medicine. He was a member of the Royal Med. Society, of Edinburgh; of the Mass. Med. Society; of the American Academy, and the Mass. Hist. Society; was several times Rep. and Senator in the State Legislature; a trustee of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, and a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University.
George W. COFFIN
[spooner.FTW] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston, Page 719
Son of Hon. Peleg Coffin, formerly of Nantucket. He was many years Land Agent of Massachusetts, and resided in Boston, but now (1854) is retired to Roxbury.
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William Jones SPOONER
[spooner.FTW] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston, Page 719
WILLIAM JONES, b. Ap. 15, 1794; grad. Harv. Coll. 1813, with distinguished honor; studied law at Litchfield Law School, afterwards with Peter O. Thatcher, Esq., of Boston. He was a distinguished scholar; was Orator of the Phi Beta Kappa in 1822, and contributed several able articles to the North Am. Review; was a member of the Mass. Hist. Society. He d. Oct. 17, 1824, aged 30, unm. [For memoir of Mr. Spooner, see Mass. Hist. Col., 3d Ser. I., p. 265.]
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