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M William Spencer

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County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 36 Kent County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2000, Generation Press, Agincourt, ON:
Scane Ebenezer W, 26, Chatham, Howard, s/o John & Elizabeth, married 14 Feb 1865 Mary A. Spencer, 24, Chatham, Chatham, d/o William & Betsy.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 48-50:
E. W. Scane, who departed this life April 1, 1902, was a leading barrister of Chatham, County of Kent, and his death removed from that city not only one of the oldest members of the Bar, but also one of her most prominent citizens and highly esteemed Christian gentlemen...
     E. W. Scane was born Sept. 9, 1838, in the township of Howard, on the same farm where he grew to manhood, and attended the rural schools...
     On Feb. 14, 1865, Mr. Scane and Miss Mary A. Spencer were united in marriage. Mrs. Scane is a daughter of William and Betsy (Cherry) Spencer, the former of whom was born in Hull, England, in 1800, and the latter in the United States in 1810. They located in Chatham in 1838, and Mr. Spencer died there in 1847, the mother on Aug. 7, 1893. They had five children: Adelaide (Mrs. Thomas Stone), deceased; William, of California; Timothy, of California, deceased; Mrs. Scane; and Samuel, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Scane became the parents of four children: (1) Walter W. was called to the Bar in 1887, and has been a legal practitioner in Chatham ever since, and is a member of the firm of Huston, Stone & Scane, barristers, of Chatham. He married Emma Wall, by whom he has two daughters, Mary and Margaret. (2) Adelaide Cherry married William J. Taylor, of Chatham, and has two children, William Wallace and Thomas Hulme. (3) John Wallace, a graduate of McGill Medical College, and a practicing physician of Montreal, married Leonora Morris, and has one daughter, Mary Marjorie Amelia, and one son, John Morris. (4) Bessie C. married Joseph Hadley, of Chatham. Mr. Scane was a member of the Methodist Church, to which faith Mrs. Scane also adheres. Politically he was a Conservative. Mr. Scane owned one of the many beautiful homes in Chatham, and was numbered among the leading members of the legal profession, not only in Chatham but in Ontario.