

HON. GEORGE T. SPENCER. 



Hon. Geo. T. Spenoer is a lineal descendant of the 

 sixth generation from Jared Spencer, who emigrated to 

 America about 1634, and settled first at Cambridge, 

 Mass., then called Newtown ; subsequently at Lynn, 

 Mass. ; afterwards at Hartford ; and was at Haddam, 

 Conn., in 1662, where he died in 1685. 



His son Thomas migrated to the town of Saybrook, 

 Conn., about 1679, where the family remained, and where 

 Judge George T. Spencer was born, Nov. 6, 1814. 



His father, George Spencer, was a manufacturer of 

 ivory combs, piano-keys, etc., and was among the earliest 

 manufacturers in this country of that class of goods. 



He married Julia Pratt, of Saybrook, who was a de- 

 scendant of Rev. William Pratt, of Baldock, Hertford- 

 shire, England, through William Pratt, the emigrant of 

 1633, who was among the early settlers of Saybrook in 

 1645, known as Lieutenant William Pratt. Of this 

 union were born two sous and three daughters, of whom 

 Judge Spencer was eldest. His father died at the age 

 of ninety-one, July 24, 1877. His mother died March, 

 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. 



Judge Spencer received his preliminary education at 

 the common school, at Lees Academy, Connecticut, and 

 at Amherst Academy, Massachusetts. 



In 1833 he entered Yale College, from which he was 

 graduated in the class of 1837, with classmates William 

 M. Evarts, Secretary of State; Morrison R. Waite, 

 Chief Justice of the United States ; and Edward Pierre- 

 pont, late Minister to the Court of St. James. 



In 1839 he entered the law office of Governor Ells- 

 worth, at Hartford, Conn., and subsequently was a stu- 

 dent with John G. Forbes, of Syracuse, N. Y., and was 

 admitted to the bar in July, 1841. 



In August of the same year he began the practice of 

 the law in Corning, where he has remained continuously 

 until the present time. 



He was formerly a Whig, but became a member of 

 the Republican party upon its formation. 



In 1857 he was a member of the Legislature of the 

 State, and served upon the committee on the judiciary. 



In 1867 he was a member of the Constitutional Con- 

 vention, and from 1872 to 1876, inclusive, judge of 

 Steuben County. 



In the year 1842 he married Harriet, daughter of Ira 

 Stacy, of Belchertown, Mass. Their children are George 

 Spencer, of St, Cloud, Minn. ; Mrs. Horace N. Pond, of 

 Boston, Mass. ; Mrs. Rev. Albert W. Hubbard, of Sivas, 

 Turkey ; Betsey ; Clarissa ; and Hugh. 



