. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 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 f
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 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
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