SOLOMON SPENCER was born in Union Township, this county, January 6, 1839, and is the third of the eight children born to Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Barnet) Spencer, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, and of Scotch and English descent. When a small boy, Thomas Spenser was taken by his parents to Perry County, Ohio, where he was taught the tanner's trade; he was there married, and soon after abandoned his trade and became a farmer. In 1830, he came to this county with his brother, George, A. Spencer; returned to Ohio, and in 1860 came back to this county and bought 160 acres of his brother, Benjamin M., in Union Township, also entering 320 acres in Union and 920 acres in Honey Creek Township. On the Union Township land he erected a cabin, in which Solomon Spencer was born, and on this place Thomas Spencer died in October, 1877, having been preceded by his wife October 10, 1870; both bad been life-long members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Spencer had held various official positions. . Solomon Spencer received the ordinary education obtainable at a frontier schoolhouse, which lie afterward improved by extensive reading and study. He remained on the home farm until thirty years of age, and then bought a farm of 480 acres in this township, where he has ever since been extensively and successfully engaged in the stock business. February 11, 1869, he married Olivia Thomas, a native of Ohio, but there, have been born Do children to this union. Mr. Spencer is a member of Monticello Lodge, No. 144, A., F. & A. M., and is liberal in his political views. His parents were among the pioneers of the county, and among the heirlooms in his possession is a looking glass move than a hundred years old, which belonged to his maternal Grandmother; he has also a camp kettle which was used by his maternal grandfather in the war of 1812.

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