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Spencer, Hiram Ladd – Spilman, Isaac R

Spencer, Hiram Ladd

journalist, author, was born in 1829 in Castleton, Vt.

He is the author of Summer Saunterings Away Down East; and a volume of poems.

Spencer, Ichabod Smith

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1798, in Rupert, Vt. He was a presbyterian clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years; and the author of A Pastor's Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; and Evidences of Divine Revelation. He died Nov. 23, 1854, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Spencer, James Bradley

soldier, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 26, 1781, in Salisbury, Conn.

He served as a captain in the war of 1812.

He was in the legislature of New York in 1831 and 1832; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He subsequently held the various positions of elector, magistrate, county judge, collector and Indian agent. He died March 26, 1848, in Fort Covington, N. Y.

Spencer, James R

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Courtland county, N. Y. He was educated in the schools of Binghamton, N. Y.; and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He is a successful lawyer of Waukesha, Wis.; has been justice of the peace for the past sixteen years; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.

Spencer, Morton W

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 21, 1836, in Gilbert's Mills, N. Y. This eminent minister of the free baptist church is the author of The Missing Link, which is a history of cur Saxon race, containing one thousand historical and prophetic proofs of our Hebrew and Saxon ancestry.

Spencer, Platt Rogers

the originator of the Spencerian method of penmanship, was born Nov. 7, 1800, in East Fishkill, N. Y. He had given penmanship much attention from early youth, and was led to perfect his semi-angular system by seeing the necessity of a more rapid execution than the old round Roman method, and a more legible hand than the angular or German system. He died May 16, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio.

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Spencer, Roswell T

journalist, legislator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, in Bluffdale, Ill. He is the editor and owner of the Illinois State Center of Illiopolis; has been the vice president of the Illinois State Press association, and is a prominent member of the Masonic lodge.

Spencer, Selden P

legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1862, in Erie, Pa. In 1895 he served as a member of the Missouri state legislature from St. Louis; and in 1897 became judge of the circuit court of St. Louis for a term of six years.

Spencer, Thomas

physician, educator, author, was born in 1793 in Great Barrington, Mass. He was a physician who was medical professor at Hobart college in 1835-57; and was the author of Lectures on Vital Chemistry; and Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. He died May 30, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Spencer, William B

congressman.

He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fourth congress. SPENCER, MRS. WILLIAM LORING [NUNEZ], was born in 18-, in St. Augustine, Fla. She is the author of Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; and Calamity Jane.

Spilman, Isaac R

civil engineer, lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1856, in Toulon, Ill. He received his education at the Ewing college, from which institution he graduated in 1880. He has been county surveyor and city attorney of DuQuoin, Ill., where he has attained prominence as an able lawyer.