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Show LAST OF WAR GOVERNORS William Sprague of Rhode Island In Sole Survivor of State Executives Execu-tives of '60s. Providence, R. I. Williary. Sprague at Rhode Island, by the death of ex-Gov. ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook of Vermont, lias, become the only survivor of the state governors upon whom fell the brunt of preparation for the civil war. Ex-Gov. Sprague was 79 years old September 12. Elected governor early Ls 1 Mr. Sprague. In 1S60, he answered President Lincoln's Lin-coln's first call for troops with a regiment of 1,500 men and a battery, which were equipped at an outlay of ?100000 by the firm of A. W. Sprague & Co. He himself rode to the front Rt the head of the outfit at the first battle of Bull Run. The ex-governor married Miss Kate Chase, daughter of Lincoln's secretary oi state, in November, 1863, but was subsequently divorced and remarried rn 1S73 his firm failed for $17.000,O0C rtt liabilities .of $9,000,000, |