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Ellen Spencer Mussey

Platt T. Spencer
Father of Ellen Spencer Mussey

Mr. Spencer developed the Spencerian system of penmanship, the standard for script handwriting in the late nineteenth century. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate, which beliefs were later passed along to his daughter.

R.C. Spencer

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