Early Life and Education
Rolland Harty Spaulding was the third son of Jonas Spaulding. He was born in 1873 in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, where his father and uncle had a fiberboard mill. His father founded a mill at Rochester, New Hampshire and moved his family there. The young Spaulding was educated at Phillips Academy, (class of 1893).
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