He found in this undertaking that his duties, although lucrative, were onerous, and he gave way to the worry of the business p art of the enterprise, a phase of the publication trade with which he had had no previous experience.
[1] He was the author of: Present Distribution of Wealth (1896); America's Working People (1900), and essays on "The Taxation of Labor"; "Single Tax", and "Giffeus Case against Bimetallism".
[2] On July 5, 1892, he married Jean Gurney, daughter of Lambert and Mary (Burchard) Fine, of Princeton, New Jersey.
[4] Spahr either fell or jumped overboard from the steamer Prince Albert midway between Ostend and Dover on August 30, 1904.
He had been suffering from a complication of severe indigestion, and the nervous strain of overwork in his editorial duties; he was traveling for his health.