Santa Cruz County Biographies

EDGAR SPALSBURY

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        Edgar Spalsbury, of the firm of Spalsbury & Burke, is a New Yorker by 
birth having been born in Jefferson County, in that State, in 1835. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1856 and immediately began practice in his native county. 
On the breaking out of the Rebellion he abandoned a large and lucrative practice 
and entered the service as captain of Company I Thirty-fifth New York Infantry, 
receiving his first "baptism of fire" July 21, 1861, at the first battle of Bull 
Run. After the reorganization of the army he was assigned with this regiment to 
the Army of the Potomac and participated in the campaigns of Northern Virginia.
        Much broken in health, Mr. Spalsbury left and spent some time in 
traveling in an effort to regain his health, resuming the practice of his 
profession in Chicago in 1865. There, however, overwork and the severe climate 
again caused loss of health, and, after trying several health resorts at the 
East, he came to California in the spring of 1875, and, by summering in the 
Santa Cruz Mountains and wintering in Santa Cruz for three or four years, 
entirely recovered his health.
        Both Mr. and Mrs. Spalsbury are members of the First Congregational 
Church of Santa Cruz, and it is owing largely to their efforts that the present 
fine edifice of that society has been erected: Their residence is 16 Laurel 
Street.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891