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Note: HE OF GENEVA OH , THEY HAD 3 KIDS THEN OF NEWARK NJ Obituary. Edward P. Spencer, our well known townsman, died on the 11th instant, at his home on Lock wood street. He was ill for some time and bore his sufferings with no little fortitude and patience. The funeral occured at the Baptist Church on Wednesday last, Rev. J. S. Cleveland officialing in an impressive manner. Mr. Spencer was the son of Harvey and Louisa Spencer, pioneers of Geneva, and he was the brother of the late W. P. Spencer, editor of this paper. He was born in and grew to manhood at the old homestead, now occupied by C. M. Spenir, another brother of the deceased. He was a student at the Kingsville Academy in its palmy days and graduated from that institution with honors. He was a faith- 'ul student also under his uncle, the late P. B. Spencer, the founder of the Speuierian system of penmanship. He was ,n expert penman, and for many years aught the art with no little success. In parly life, he went to Wisconsin, settling in Sauk county and was an honored county official for many successive terms. The records that he kept wire models of the penman's art, and are still referred to with pride by the citizeas und officials of that county. For many years past, Mr. Spencer was a resident of Geneva, and during the most of this time he was engaged in the insurance business, at first on his own account and later in the employ of other agents, among the number being George P. Sadd, S. J. Massingham, Henry Means and F. R. Smith. The records of all these agencies bear evidence of his artistic work. Mr. Spencer was very companionable, kind-hearted, always genial. At times, lie was humorous and witty, but never iD a way to wound the feelings of others. He was thoroughly devoted to his family, and his memory will ever be cherished by the loved ones left to mourn his death. In 850,he married Miss Prudence Kneeland, if Baraboo, Wifl., formerly of Elizabethown, New York, and she and three of heir five children survive him. To them nd the surviving brother, we extend our sympathy.—[Geneva, O., Times, Sept. 20. Platt R. Spencer had writing schools in different places, one of his itinermt teachers having been the late E. P. Spencer in his young manhood. E. (to tseque-ilU (ion. some of which found its way int a Clinton county newspaper to the effect thai two young men had been guilty of wrong doing. It turi>s i-iu. however, that a carload of booze was stopped just below Sehroun Lake and that a number of people, including (he i wo youni? men mentioned, v down near where the carload ...... stopped and that an officer accidentally fired a shol through the number plate on an automobile owned by Deputy Sheriff Jenks of Schroon Lake. The two young men above referred fo were arrested, brought up fo Elizabethtown and taken before Horatio \\\ [Thomas, I'. S. Commissioner at Ke.esrville. who on Saturday last beard what there was of the aHe^-.l complaint against them. It turned out to have been a "tempest in a Kapot." so far as the. youim men being guilty of wrong- doing was ooncerm'i, as the evidence at the hearing did not materialize in that direction. On the contrary all the evidence that was produced at the full, fair and eminently impartial hearing ;a\e the young men in question "a •lean bill of health." so to speak, sev- >ral of the most substantial resident* >f Schroon Lake having been at Keese ille as character witnesses. I'nde: he circumstances Commissioner Thomas did his. plain duty, discharged the young men. The "boys" w»-re not lodged in "the county jail," they did no "hi-jacking" d it is only fair that the public be informed. er. Last Thursday night ivy*. Burnham rave his illustrated lecture on Siberia at Essex. It is reliably reported that an effort is being made to get him to give his lecture on Siberia here in [Elizabethtown some time during the coming winter. P. Spencer did not live in Elizabeth town but he married a young lady who had been an Elizabethtown belle, Miss Prudence C. Kneeland. The writer has seen the late E. P. Spencer, when he was venerable in years, with a whole school of children around him on the streets of Geneva begging him to draw pictures of birds and animals and set copy for them, which.he did. If Percy will come back to the beautiful Boquet Valley again next summer he will be shown the grave of his grandfather, Nathan Perry, who took part in the Battle of Plattsburg and that of his great grandfather, Abijah Perry, who served in the American Revolution. Both graves are here in Elizabethtown,
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