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Charles was born on May 1, 1801 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. As a child he was apparently nurtured in a religious atmosphere, for a younger brother (born in Boston, September 16, 1804) was named after John Murray, the founder of Universalism in America.
Although completing an apprenticeship as a printer, Charles likewise studied theology under the Rev. Hosea Ballou.
Spear was called to minister to the Universalist parish in Brewster (1828), then in Rockport (1837), and finally in Boston (1839).
Printing his Essays on the Punishment of Death in 1844, Spear deserves some of the credit for the formation in that year of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, of which he became the faithful secretary. It was at this point that a squabble among the friends of prison reform in New England alienated a large faction from the dogmatic leadership of Louis Dwight of the Boston Prison Discipline Society, and Spear found the occasion propitious for the establishment of a thin weekly paper, The Hangman, the first issue appearing in January 1845; a year later the title was changed to The Prisoners' Friend, and in September 1848, on the occasion of a John Howard Festival in Boston, organized by Spear and a group of friends, the weekly was transformed into a monthly.
Meanwhile, in its pages and subsequently in book form, Spear had published A Plea for Discharged Convicts (1846). While Charles was issuing appeals against the irrevocable punishment of death and in behalf of the friendless discharged man, his younger brother, John Murray Spear, also a Universalist minister and collaborator in the journal, undertook a personal mission of visitation, befriending and assisting released convicts. The two brothers thus introduced Boston to the humanitarian activities later to be organized under parole laws, in which pioneering they had been preceded by Isaac Tatem Hopper in New York.
Depending entirely on the philanthropy of their subscribers and faced with the fact that "all do not pay up, " they were fortunate in attracting a donation of $225 from Jenny Lind in 1850. Wider recognition was received in the same year when an official request from England for information concerning the laws of the states on capital punishment was referred by the authorities at Washington to Charles Spear.
Interpreting this request as a providential command to go over and help Europe abolish capital punishment, he proceeded to Washington to gather information and to enlarge the circle of his backers. Securing a letter from Daniel Webster, he journeyed to England in time to attend the Congress of the Friends of Universal Peace at London in 1851, but his "Notes by the Way, " sent back to his brother who was temporarily in charge of the Prisoners' Friend, naevely reveal that his inspection of English and French prisons and his attempted conference with several British statesmen made very little stir in the Old World.
His dream of a world association to safeguard the interests of convicts remained to be dreamed afresh by Enoch Cobb Wines in the late sixties. Even back in Boston the friendless prisoner was becoming still more friendless as the fifties advanced, and Charles Spear, with many of his subscribers disgruntled over the cost of the editor's five-month "vacation, " found the support for his paper steadily decreasing and was forced to discontinue publication in 1859 or shortly thereafter.
Perhaps because of his unorthodox interests, his later years were obscure. He died in 1863.
His greatest achievement spanned the area of advocating the abolishment of the death penalty, support of prison reform, and founding the newspaper Prisoner's Friend. A little book, Names and Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ, which he compiled and printed in 1841, gained him a wider acquaintance, but his religious fervor was more a product of sentiment than of scholarship, and it was his sympathy for the fate of both condemned and discharged criminals that made his life significant.
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On December 22, 1829, he married Mrs. Frances King of Brewster. His second wife was Catharine Swan Brown.
