John Lancaster Spalding

1840–1916 · Roman Catholic (United States) · Peoria, Illinois

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916), first Bishop of Peoria and a co-founder of the Catholic University of America, was the most literary of the American Catholic hierarchy. He preached and wrote on education and on the place of Catholics in American life, and served on the federal commission that settled the anthracite coal strike of 1902.