James W. Spencer

SPENCER, JONES, SIMS

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/24/2004 at 09:02:25

James W. Spencer, the present county auditor of Butler county, has been a resident of this county since January , 1872. He was born in the Province of Ontario, then Canada West, in 1840. His father, whose parents were natives of New Jersey, was born at Lundy’s Lane, Canada, and his mother was born in England. They now reside in Delaware, Clinton county, Iowa.
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Mr. Spencer removed with his parents to Jackson county in 1854; was for some time engaged at clerking in Maquoketa, then in Dubuque, and in 1866 went to Chicago, where he acted in the same capacity for a wholesale dry-goods house. In 1872 he returned to Jackson county, and, as stated above, came to Butler county. For two years he acted as assistant superintendent of the Iowa Central Stock Farm, and in January, 1874, was appointed deputy sheriff under Capt. J. R. Jones, in which capacity he served for six years. In the fall of 1879 he was elected county auditor, and re-elected in the fall of 1881.
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Politically, Mr. Spencer is a republican, and an earnest advocate of the principles of that party. Officially, he is an able, affable and popular officer; and socially, an agreeable and entertaining companion. Mrs. Spencer was formally Miss Allie E. Sims, a native of Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 293-294