CLASS OF 1874

Dr. Calvin Alonzo Spencer, son of Calvin and Mary (Miller) Spencer, was born in Dunmore, Pa., April 13, 1846, and died at Spring City, Pa., April 20, 1910. At the age of ten years he was obliged to provide for himself and began to plan for a course in medicine. Although without money or encouragement, this determination never left him, and he pursued his studies under many discouragements. He became one of the leading physicians and surgeons in Luzerne county, where the great part of his professional life was passed. He took postgraduate work at Jefferson Medical College and the University of New York during his early practice. He practiced one year at Gibson, Pa., almost thirty years at Dallas, Pa., and six years at Spring City. He was a member of local medical societies and of the American Medical Association, and was a delegate to this body at its session in Nashville, Tenn. His death was instantaneous, from acute enlargement of the heart. Dr. Spencer was four times married, and is survived by a widow, Mary Hawley Spencer, and by two sons. During the Civil War he served for one year in Company B, 171st Pennsylvania Volunteers.