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Born July 4, 1883 ( 1883-07-04 ) New York City Parents Lorillard Spencer, Caroline Suydam Berryman People also search for Katherine Emmons Force, Madeleine Astor, William Hurlburt Force, Katherine Arvilla Talmadge | ||
Lorillard Suydam Spencer (July 4, 1883 - June 10, 1939) was president of Atlantic Aircraft and was prominent in Newport, Rhode Island society. He served as the military secretary to Charles Seymour Whitman, the New York Governor.
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Biography
He was born on July 4, 1883 in New York City to Lorillard Spencer and Caroline Suydam Berryman, a granddaughter of Stephen Whitney of New York. She would later become a missionary in the Philippines.
On December 16, 1910 he was elected as the temporary chairman of the New York City Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He and his first wife Mary Ridgeley Sands had a son named Lorillard Suydam Spencer, Jr.
He married Katherine Emmons Force on December 6, 1922 in New York City. They had two sons, Stephen Wolcott Spencer and William Hurlbut Force Spencer. Her sister Madeleine was the widow of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV.
He died on June 10, 1939 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Legacy
The earliest Filipino Boy Scout troop recorded in history was named after him due to the monetary support provided by his mother, who was an American charity worker in Sulu, Philippines. The Lorillard Spencer Trophy serves as the perpetual award to a local Boy Scout council in the Philippines obtaining the highest record of advancement and membership for the year. The trophy is inscribed as "The Lorillard Spencer Trophy Presented by His Mother in Loving Memory of a Loyal Scouter".