Obituary: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: John H. SPENCER ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, April 2008 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Died: At the home of his son in Chicago, Dec. 20, after an illness of seven months, Mr. John H. Spencer, aged 89 years. The deceased was born in Springfield, Vt., Nov. 13, 1808. He worked on his father's farm until he was 24 years of age at which time he engaged himself in the stove business in the city of Barrie, Mass. At this time he married Miss Sarah Whitcomb of Springfield, Vt. During his residence in Barrie, his wife and child died. Two years later, he married Miss Ellen Whitcomb, a sister of his deceased wife. Six children was the result of this union, of which four are living, Mrs. Ellen Brass of Howard, S. D., Mrs. Ida Syvier of Milwaukee, De Witt Spencer, of Minneapolis, and Waldo H. Spencer of Chicago, Ill. In 1852, he removed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin where he engaged in the leather business in connection with a tannery in Green Bay. He remained in Fond du Lac nearly 20 years, and then moved to Milwaukee where he lived when his wife died. Since his wife died he has lived with his duaghter Mrs. Syvier. He also leaves two brothers, the last of the six Spencer brothers, Peter F. aged 91 and Geo. F. Spencer, aged 75 both now living in this city. The remains were laid beside those of his second wife in Fond du Lac cemetery. December 25, 1897, The Badger, p. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin Note; in a family history "Spencer Family Record" by William Henry Spencer, John's daughter Ida married Fred Sivyer "a wealthy iron manufacturer of Milwaukee". Note the spelling is different in the obituary