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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Warren H Spencer: Birth: 8 SEP 1851.

  2. Simeon K Spencer: Birth: 16 SEP 1853 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.

  3. Mary Spencer: Birth: 16 FEB 1862 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. Death: 15 SEP 1862 in Alma, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States

  4. Nettie L Spencer: Birth: 13 OCT 1866 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.


Notes
a. 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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