Lorillard S. Spencer

Lorillard Suydam Spencer

Spencer in 1911
Born July 4, 1883
New York City
Died June 10, 1939 (aged 55)
Newport, Rhode Island
Title President of Atlantic Aircraft
Spouse(s) Mary Ridgeley Sands
Katherine Emmons Force
(m. 1922–1939; his death)
Children Lorillard Suydam Spencer, Jr.
Stephen W. Spencer
William H. F. Spencer
Parent(s) Lorillard Spencer
Caroline Suydam Berryman

Lorillard Suydam Spencer (July 4, 1883 - June 10, 1939) was president of Atlantic Aircraft and was prominent in Newport, Rhode Island society.[1] He served as the military secretary to Charles Seymour Whitman, the New York Governor.[2]

Biography

He was born on July 4, 1883 in New York City to Lorillard Spencer (1860-1912).[3] and Caroline Suydam Berryman (1861-1948), a granddaughter of Stephen Whitney of New York. She would later become a missionary in the Philippines.[4][5][6]

On December 16, 1910 he was elected as the temporary chairman of the New York City Council of the Boy Scouts of America.[7] He and his first wife Mary Ridgeley Sands had a son named Lorillard Suydam Spencer, Jr.[8]

He married Katherine Emmons Force on December 6, 1922 in New York City.[9] They had two sons, Stephen Wolcott Spencer (April 22, 1925 - July 21, 2010) and William Hurlbut Force Spencer.[10] Her sister Madeleine was the widow of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV.

He died on June 10, 1939 in Newport, Rhode Island.[1] He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Legacy

The earliest Filipino Boy Scout troop recorded in history was named after him due to the monetary support provided by his mother, who was an American charity worker in Sulu, Philippines.[11] The Lorillard Spencer Trophy serves as the perpetual award to a local Boy Scout council in the Philippines obtaining the highest record of advancement and membership for the year. The trophy is inscribed as "The Lorillard Spencer Trophy Presented by His Mother in Loving Memory of a Loyal Scouter".[11]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 United Press (June 12, 1939). "Lorillard Spencer Dead". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-10-19. Lorillard Spencer 56 former executive in several airplane companies and prominent in Newport society died at his home Friday after a long ...
  2. ↑ Edgar L. Murlin (1916). The New York Red Book. J.B. Lyon Company, Albany, New York.
  3. ↑ "Lorillard Spencer Is Dead. Prominent In Society and Clubs Here and in Newport". New York Times. March 15, 1912. Retrieved 2011-01-30. Lorillard Spencer, prominent in New York society, died yesterday from Bright's disease at his home, 7 East Eighty-sixth Street. He had been ill since Feb. 28. ...
  4. ↑ "Mrs. Lorillard Spencer To Run Mission In Jolo". New York Times. December 5, 1913. Retrieved 2010-10-19. Mrs Lorillard Spencer, Noted New York matron in company with an Episcopal deaconess will instruct the savage tribesmen of the Philippines in Christianity ...
  5. ↑ "Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Wealthy Widow, Goes To Philippine Islands to be Missionary". New York Times. December 5, 1913. Retrieved 2012-11-26. ... In the conversion of the Mohammedan populace of Jolo to Christianity..... Mrs. Lorillard Spencer was at the time of her marriage in 1882 one of the most beautiful women in America.....
  6. ↑ "Mrs. L. Spencer Dies In Home At Newport". New York Times. April 7, 1948. Retrieved 2010-10-19. Mrs. Caroline S. Berryman Spencer, widow of Lorillard Spencer, who was prominent in New York and Newport society and was editor of the Illustrated American.....
  7. ↑ "The Boy Scouts Like Knights of Old". New York Times. December 17, 1910. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  8. ↑ "Miss Force weds Lorillard Spencer". New York Times. December 6, 1922.
  9. ↑ "Miss Katherine Force To Wed Major Spencer. Their Marriage to Take Place Tomorrow at the Home of Her Sister, Mrs. William K. Dick". New York Times. December 5, 1922. Retrieved 2012-11-26. Although the engagement of Miss Katherine B. Force, daughter of Mrs. William H. Force, to Major Lorillard Spencer has never been formally announced, it has been rumored for some time, and their wedding will take place tomorrow at the home of Mrs. William K. Dick, 7 East Eighty-fourth Street. Mrs. Dick, who was formerly Mrs. John Jacob Astor, is Miss Force's sister.
  10. ↑ "Stephen W. Spencer". July 29, 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-26. Born in New York, NY, on April 22, 1925, he was the son of the late Katherine (Force) and Lorillard Spencer. His father was a highly decorated World War I veteran.....
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Boy Scouts of the Philippines (1996). Diamond Jubilee Yearbook. Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.