Charles James Sprague (January 16, 1823, Boston – August 5, 1903, Hingham, Massachusetts) was a bank official, author, poet, musician, and botanist, specializing in lichenology.[1]
Charles James Sprague, whose father was the poet Charles Sprague (1791–1875), followed his father into the banking business.[1] For many years Charles J. Sprague contributed poems and articles to periodicals.[2] In the 1850s[3] and 1860s he was a curator in botany for the Boston Society of Natural History.
From 1874 to 1880 Cyrus G. Pringle collected lichens for Sprague's herbarium.[4]
In 1856 Charles J. Sprague was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He married Amelia Stodder in 1847, they had 2 children. [5] His herbarium is now at Boston's Museum of Science.[6]