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PROF. L. J. SPENCER, principal Webb City schools, is a native of Pulaski county, Ky., and was born March 30, 1851. His father, Win. Spencer, was a native of Kentucky, and was also born in Pulaski county, as was also his mother, who before her marriage with Wm. Spencer was a Miss Louisa J. Cooper. Mr. Wm. Spencer’s father, James, was a native of Indiana, as was also his grandfather, Amasa. Prof. L. J. Spencer is the fourth of a family of six children, four of whom are now living. In 1855 his parents removed to Illinois and settled in Platt county, where the subject of this sketch was raised on a farm and educated in the schools of the county. In 1869 he attended the state normal school at Normal, Ill., where he graduated in 1877 in a class of twenty-three. He has since been teaching in the schools of Illinois and Missouri, and in 1882 was elected principal of Webb City school. He was married July 4, 1877, to Miss Anna J. McGregor of Austin county, Texas. They have one child: Jewel, aged four years. Mr. S. and wife are members of the Baptist and Presbyterian churches, respectively. He is a gentleman who is thoroughly up in school work, and under his efficient management the schools are very prosperous.