Franklin Spencer Spalding: Man and Bishop is a biography written by John Howard Melish in 1917. The book chronicles the life and achievements of Franklin Spencer Spalding, who was a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Spalding was born in 1865 in Illinois and grew up in a devoutly religious family. He attended the University of Illinois and later studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Spalding's...