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Oliver was born on August 2, 1833 in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Lyman and Susan (Marshall) Spaulding. He was seventh in descent from Edward Spalding, who settled in Braintree, Massachussets, before 1640; his grandfather was a brother of Levi Spaulding.
Oliver Spaulding attended local elementary schools, and the Melville Academy in Jaffrey. In 1851 the family moved to Medina, Michigan, and he received further education at Oberlin College, where he was graduated in 1855. After teaching school in Medina and reading law for two years, he moved, in 1857, to St. Johns, Clinton County, a new village just being laid out. There he studied in the law office of James W. Ransom and in 1858 was admitted to the bar. That same year he was elected a regent of the University of Michigan for a term of six years.
He entered the Union army in 1862 as captain in the 23rd Michigan Infantry, and passed through the intermediate grades to that of colonel (April 16, 1864). With his regiment he took part in the Atlanta campaign, the battles of Franklin and Nashville, the capture of Fort Anderson, North Carolina, and the advance from Wilmington to Goldsboro and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Toward the close of the war he commanded his brigade, and was mustered out in 1865 as colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He then returned to St. Johns and to the practice of law. From 1867 to 1870 he was secretary of state of Michigan. In 1871 he declined appointment as federal judge in Utah; but in 1875 he accepted appointment as special agent of the Treasury at Detroit.
This office he held most of the time until 1890, retaining his residence in St. Johns and his legal connections there.
For one term, 1881-83, he represented his home district in Congress. For the greater part of 1883 he was chairman of a commission appointed to investigate the workings of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, a task which involved a visit to Honolulu and to other places in the Islands, then not at all easy of access. As special agent of the Treasury his duties included not only the ordinary inspections of his own district, which extended from Marquette to Rochester, but special investigations of customs and immigration matters from New York to San Francisco.
From 1890 to 1893, and again from 1897 to 1903, he was assistant secretary of the Treasury, having supervision of Customs, Revenue Cutter, Marine Hospital, Life Saving and Immigration services, and the Seal Islands. He was charged also with the special arrangements for handling customs affairs at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, and developed procedure which has served as precedent at subsequent expositions. He was president of the first Customs Congress of the American Republics, held in New York in January 1903.
In 1903 he resigned as assistant secretary by reason of ill health, but continued to reside in Washington until his death, serving as special agent of the Treasury there until continued ill health forced his complete retirement.
Spaulding died at his home in Georgetown.
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He was a communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church in St. Johns, and for nearly twenty-five years was senior warden.
In politics he was a Republican, and when not in public office was active in Michigan political affairs.
He was an active Mason.
He married, May 29, 1856, Mary Jane Mead of Hillsdale, Mich. , who died the next year, and on Apr. 12, 1859, he married her sister, Martha Minerva, who died in 1861; the following year, Aug. 12, he married Mary Cecilia, daughter of John Swegles, one of the leading figures in Michigan affairs and founder of the village of St. Johns.
