OBIT: James M. SPENCER, 1917, native of Blair County, PA

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Williamsburg.

James M. Spencer.

  R. E. Spencer received a message Friday announcing the death of his 
brother, James M. Spencer, a former well known resident of this place, 
at his home, 742 south Fifty-seventh street, Philadelphia, at 2:40 
Friday a.m.  The deceased was born at Royer, Pa., April 24, 1849, being 
in the 68th year of his age at the time of his death.  He was the 
eldest son of the late William J. and Margaretta McNamara Spencer.  He 
received his education through the medium of the Williamsburg public 
schools, Williamsburg academy and Williamsport Dickinson academy and 
Williamsport Dickinson seminary.  By vocation he was a commercial 
salesman, following the profession practically his entire life until 
within a few months of his passing, when his health, which had been 
failing in recent years, unfitted him for traveling.  During his career 
he served a number of prominent mercantile firms and was well known 
throughout Pennsylvania and eastern states as an alert and efficient 
salesman.  He was an affable Christian gentleman, a radical 
Prohibitionist and combined business pursuits and religion to a marked 
degree.  He is survived by his wife and eight children and one brother 
as stated above.  The funeral will occur Monday.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, January 13, 1917