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From the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F. A. Battey & CO., Publishers. 1883."
page 355, Princeton Township, White County, Indiana
"SAMUEL T. SPENCER is a native of Hampshire County, Virginia, born June 2, 1837. Samuel is the eldest of eleven children in the family of ANDREW and ELIZABETH (DOBBINS) SPENCER, and came with them to Jasper County, Indiana, in 1846, and in the spring of 1851, again removed with them to Princeton Township, where the father began settlement on Section 7. At the age of twenty-two year, MR. SPENCER began the trials of life for himself, by doing labor on farms of other men for two years, and then worked for his father for some time, but in August, 1862, enlisted in Company G, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers, remaining in the service until the close of the war, and after having been in sixteen battles was discharged June 21, 1865, at Albany, New York, and came home, and in December following was married to MISS NANCY J. BUNNELL, of Princeton Township, daughter of J. B. and NANCY BUNNELL; to this union have been born six children - FLORA, REED, EDGAR, EVERETT, ORPHIA, and LETA. FLORA died November 4, 1871; ORPHIA, August 28, 1879; EVERETT Sptember 10, 1879. In 1866, MR. SPENCER purchased the farm on which he now lives, and has become one of the leading farmers of the township. MR. and MRS. SPENCER are members of the Christian Church. Politically, MR. SPENCER has always been a stanch member of the Republican party."
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