. Leslie's history of the greater New York . tee inconnection witli the (irant Monu-ment celebration. He was head ofthe commissionwhich designed andformulated the plans for the recent-ly completed terminals of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. He is ann-mber of the Metropolitan, Fniversity, Tuxedo, Riding and Law-yers clubs of New York, the ]\lefroixilitan (lub of Washington, theChicago Club of that city, and the Capital City Club of Atlanta. Hemarried, in 1872, L(»uise Nivian, daughter of General Henry L. Ben-ning, at one time a justice of the Sujueme Court of Georgia, and hastwo daughters an
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . tee inconnection witli the (irant Monu-ment celebration. He was head ofthe commissionwhich designed andformulated the plans for the recent-ly completed terminals of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. He is ann-mber of the Metropolitan, Fniversity, Tuxedo, Riding and Law-yers clubs of New York, the ]\lefroixilitan (lub of Washington, theChicago Club of that city, and the Capital City Club of Atlanta. Hemarried, in 1872, L(»uise Nivian, daughter of General Henry L. Ben-ning, at one time a justice of the Sujueme Court of Georgia, and hastwo daughters and a son—Henry Benning Spencer. Mr. Spencerwas himself born in Columbus, Ga., [March 2,1817, the son of LambertSpencer, merchant, and \ei-ona ^fitchell. He descends from JamesSpencer, Avho settled on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1610. Heattended the Georgia ^Military Institute; at the age of sixteen enteredthe Confederate Army, and served two years, until the close of theCivil War; was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1867,. SAMUKL SltNCtU. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NliW YORK BIOCRAFHY. All iit the iiL^v (if twfiiTy, at the head of his chiss, and in IS(il) was gradu-ated as a civil engineer froni the University of Vii<j,inia. He worl^edas rodnian on the survey of the Savannah and [Menipiiis Kailroad,and snecessively became leveler, transit-man, resident enj;ineer, andfirst assistant eniiineer. Tlie latter position lie resigned in 1S72 tobecome Clerk to the Superintendent of the New Jei-sey Southern Itail-road. In December of the same year he became Assistant Supervisorof Trains on the First Division of the Baltimore and Ohio 1S78 to 1S77 he was Supervisor of Trains, in chariie of Iraiis-](ortation on the branch lines of that disision. For a few months hethen became Superintend(oit of Trans])ortation for the Virginia Mid-land Eailway, in 1878 becoming- General Superintendent of the LongIsland Eailroad. In 1870 he accepted the position of assistant to Pres
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