Born: Sep­tem­ber 6, 1840, Rock Island, Il­li­nois.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 25, 1901, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­vania.

Buried: Chippiannock Cem­e­te­ry, Rock Island, Illinois.

Between 1867 and 1885 Spen­cer served num­er­ous Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal (ME) church­es in the Rock Ri­ver Con­fer­ence (north­ern Il­li­nois). He was sen­ior pas­tor of the First ME Church in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, for six weeks in 1885 when he was elect­ed to serve as as­sist­ant Cor­res­pond­ing Sec­re­ta­ry of the ME of Church Ex­ten­sion, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. His daugh­ter was hymn­ist Cla­ris­sa Spen­cer.

Hymns

  1. Songs of the Reaper, The