Biographical Sketch of O. M. Spencer, Jr., St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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O. M. Spencer, Jr., was born August 23, 1850, in Missouri, and is the
son of O. M. Spencer, who emigrated from the State of Kentucky and
located on the Platte Purchase in 1846.  He passed his boyhood days,
until he arrived at the age of eighteen, upon a farm, at which time
he laid aside the implements of husbandry and left the labors of the
field in order to enter the public schools of St. Joseph, where he
fitted himself for college.  He afterwards attended Christian Univer-
sity, where he graduated in 1872 with the second honors, and by virtue
of those honors was representative of the class.  Having chosen the
profession of law for his avocation in life, he entered the office of
a distinguished attorney in Leavenworth, Kansas, where he pursued his
legal studies until he was admitted to the bar.  In order to become
still more proficient and to gain that scientific knowledge of the
fundamental principles of the common law which distinguishes the true
lawyer, he entered the law department of Harvard College, and completed
his education under the instruction of those venerable and profound ex-
pounders of the law.  With a mind full of learning and a future full
of promise, he returned to his favorite city of the West, and located
in the practice of his profession, and shortly after he met the accom-
plished Miss Lillian Tottle, whom, in the winter of 1875, he led to 
the marriage altar.  In 1880 came the interesting election of officers 
for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit and for the county of Buchanan.  Mr.
Spencer was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Prosecuting Attorney
and after an exciting contest was elected to that position, which he
now holds, and the duties of which he performs to the satisfaction of
all but the criminals.

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