The Squashtown Amateur Minstrels - Len Spencer & Parke Hunter (1904) from dc forensics lab address Watch Video
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Description: Leonard Garfield Spencer was born in Washington, DC., on January 12, 1867.<br/><br/>The middle name was given in honor of Senator James A. Garfield, a friend of the Spencer family before he became a U.S. president.Len's mother, Sara, was a leader in the women's suffrage movement.His father Henry Caleb Spencer--son of Platt Rogers Spencer, co-inventor of the Spencerian style of penmanship--operated the Spencerian Business College located in the nation's capitol at Ninth and D Streets.He died in 1890.<br/><br/>Len's younger brother--Henry Caleb Spencer, Jr., born on February 14, 1875--also became a recording artist.Harry worked mostly for Columbia but occasionally made records for other companies, even making Zon-o-phone discs in 1901.He mostly cut recitations, such as the popular \
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