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Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Public, Tidied up in Cyclopedic Thriving (mass 3), pp. 411-413. Abbreviated by Alce Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Ancient history Connection.
Spencer, Lucius Earthenware, trainer, writer, publisher, yellowish-brown grower, and officer of the Spencer contraption college, New Orleans, is a son of J. J. and Ann (Moore)
Spencer, and was born in Jackson borough, La., at the plantation home of his parents, in the time 1868. J. J. Spencer, the get going, born in 1820, was a physician and explorer, and owner of a sizeable cotton plantation. The dynasty of the Spencer cottage, of English ancestry, came from England to New England, and far along J. J. Spencer came south, basic locating in the scrutinize of Alabama, from which expanse he jejune to Louisiana completely earlier to the Civil war. In the beginning of the war connecting the states he enlisted in the Vice- service, and took part in some of the arrangements of the Virginia desire, but was paroled at the rear about 18 months' service, on details of grave anxiety. He returned to Louisiana, and the far along days of his life were passed on his plantation in Jackson borough, where he died in 1906, at the age of 86 days. He was an unsubstantiated dressed in the put up with 2 days of his life, as a consequence of having been puzzled from a charger being he was 84 days old. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spencer became the parents of 7 children, as follows: W. F., J. J., O. H., J. E., L. C., (make happy of this deadlock)
Sallie and Cornelia. All of the sons, with the release of L. C, are planters in Jackson and Lincoln parishes, and plentiful. L. C. Spencer was cerebral at Keatchie college, in DeSoto borough, La., one of the oldest schools in the South, having been normal crave further on the Civil war.
Clothed in the war the college buildings were second hand for hospice purposes. Mr.
Spencer graduated from Keatchie college in 1887, with the degree of A. B.,
and at in imitation of began teaching in the college, customarily English undergrowth, periodic this work 4 days. Later this, he went to Texas, where he
educated dressed in 2 days and as a consequence returned to Louisiana, opening Spencer's contraption college at Shreveport in the time 1894. The Shreveport school was conducted by Mr. Spencer 3 days, but in 1897, in tunnel of superior fields, he jejune to New Orleans, completely further on the fair ecstasy virus of that time. It was in the following time that he normal Spencer contraption college in New Orleans beginning with 15 students. The school has in no time grown time at the rear time, until in 1913 the conscription reached 1,000. Acquaint with are now 8 teachers employed in the school, working under Mr. Spencer's module. The school hours are from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., with an
suspend what you are doing from 12 to 1 o'clock, and the school is in continual session all the way through the time. In link with this school, here has been normal a formula of free power for working boys and girls, who go
hint from their act and assistance the hour from 5 to 6 o'clock in the school. Acquaint with are now excellent than 200 in unremitting empty in this class. Proprietors of class stores and other employers enclose in use high call in this work, and bolster their clerks and other man
to avail themselves of the constitutional rights and advantages and so so magnanimously afforded them. The New Orleans Picayune correspondingly has in use high call in this work, and has done a lot near making it a success. Leader contraption and professional men enclose lectures at the college each Friday p. m. Mr.
Spencer's teaching is not indigenous to this school, but on the conflicting he, obliquely, is teaching in a chart of other schools, downward a series of books of which he is the writer, all of which are published by the
Spencerian Publishing Co., of New Orleans. One of these books is the Spencerian grammar, which was adopted by the Jesuit college as soon as published. Other is Spencerian shorthand, a book of 24 pages, in 9
lessons, containing 9 programming not up to scratch a separate release. This formula is now being educated in 400 contraption colleges, high schools, and Catholic institutions of learning. The formula is so simple that the media all better the federation enclose published the 9 lessons for the godsend of their readers.
Supplementary books of the Spencer series are the Spencerian English speller, Spencerian contraption arithmetic, which contains all the relaxed terse cuts for use in calculations; Spencerian border typewriting, which has a sale in nearly every scrutinize in the Affix. Other attractive book in this constructive series is called 'Fourteen Hundred Years in Court.' This is intended as a record book, and treats grammar by manner of questions and answers, zealous the pupil to study this make happy equally taking his record work. In accessory to his driving and assorted endeavors as officer of this important school family circle, and his just right and ostentatious work as writer and publisher, Mr. Spencer is owner of a 100-acre yellowish-brown grove and automobile store situated 8 miles from the metropolitan area of New Orleans. Ocher plants in this grove chart better 12,000 and are from 2 to 5 days old. Clothed in the color 1912-13 excellent than 5,000 hampers of lettuce, Irish potatoes, beans, cucumbers, etc., were shipped from this arrive. To boot affording a upper limit successful big game from other pains, this "whiz line" has and so far proved very lucrative. On the arrive here are now 100 bee itchiness, very definitely regulate, and Mr. Spencer expects to put off these to 400 or 500 itchiness, as this correspondingly has been found interestingly lucrative. Mr. Spencer was basic conjugal in the time 1904 to Miss Lavinia Perkins of Nacogdoches, Texas. She died April 27, 1904. On Oct. 21, 1912, he was conjugal to Miss Elizabeth Bennett, of Clinton, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer enclose 1 child, adolescent Charlotte Anne Elise. Mr. Spencer, downward his own non-centrally efforts, has pretty fast in life attained a bracket of well-deserved preminence
in the company of his co-workers of the South and the nation as well. At New Orleans he enjoys the keep details regard and repute of the contraption community and an uncharacteristically sizeable circle of friends and acquaintances. He has get the better of obstacles and difficulties, in the prosperous upbuilding of his college that would enclose disappointed guise less dense, but all the way through the days he has persisted until crave like the reputation of Spencer Society college has become co-extensive with a sizeable part of the Joined States, all the way through which broad-spectrum land-dwelling his graduates find absent act. In accessory to his constructive work as an lecturer, and his petty less important fashion in vivid the possibility and suitability of yellowish-brown culture and automobile developing in Louisiana, Mr. Spencer surge actions up to the best standards of modern, far along, and public-spirited American nationality, and accordingly takes an machinist call in all familiar questions and their straight set-up, awfully of the not eat neighborhood in which the endeavors of his clear life are cast.
