Veteran of 1812.
Taken from the Pickering-Beach Museum list of War of 1812 Soldiers appearing on the Jefferson county genweb site.
From the Short Bios section of the Jefferson county genweb site;
Dr. Gordon P. Spencer was born in Salisbury, Litchfield Co CT on 29 April 1789, son of Eliphaz Spencer, a lineal descendant of William Spencer, who with brothers Thomas and Jared, were among the first settlers of Hartford, CT. Eliphaz, father of Gordon P., was a farmer by occupation; his mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Hall of E. Haddam CT. Gordon received his medical degree in New London in 1812. He was engaged in the 1812 War. After the fight at Fort Erie, the army went into winter quarters and Gordon was engaged in the hospital at Sacket's Harbor. After the War and on his way back to Litchfield, Gordon stopped to assist Dr. Durkee of Champion in attending a man who had his leg crushed; they made a partnership arrangement and after a short visit to Connecticut, Gordon returned to Champion. The following year he married Deborah Mallery of Rutland, formerly of Litchfield CT. His extended practice took him to Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence counties and Canada. The books on which he kept his accounts since 1814 showed over four thousand names and over thirty thousand dollars for which he received no remuneration. He spent 42 years as a doctor in Champion with the emphasis that the poor were always his first care. In 1854 he suffered from a fever that would not allow him to continue his heavy schedule and in 1857 he moved to Watertown. He died 25 March 1859.
Taken from the Pickering-Beach Museum list of War of 1812 Soldiers appearing on the Jefferson county genweb site.
From the Short Bios section of the Jefferson county genweb site;
Dr. Gordon P. Spencer was born in Salisbury, Litchfield Co CT on 29 April 1789, son of Eliphaz Spencer, a lineal descendant of William Spencer, who with brothers Thomas and Jared, were among the first settlers of Hartford, CT. Eliphaz, father of Gordon P., was a farmer by occupation; his mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Hall of E. Haddam CT. Gordon received his medical degree in New London in 1812. He was engaged in the 1812 War. After the fight at Fort Erie, the army went into winter quarters and Gordon was engaged in the hospital at Sacket's Harbor. After the War and on his way back to Litchfield, Gordon stopped to assist Dr. Durkee of Champion in attending a man who had his leg crushed; they made a partnership arrangement and after a short visit to Connecticut, Gordon returned to Champion. The following year he married Deborah Mallery of Rutland, formerly of Litchfield CT. His extended practice took him to Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence counties and Canada. The books on which he kept his accounts since 1814 showed over four thousand names and over thirty thousand dollars for which he received no remuneration. He spent 42 years as a doctor in Champion with the emphasis that the poor were always his first care. In 1854 he suffered from a fever that would not allow him to continue his heavy schedule and in 1857 he moved to Watertown. He died 25 March 1859.
Veteran of 1812.
Taken from the Pickering-Beach Museum list of War of 1812 Soldiers appearing on the Jefferson county genweb site.
From the Short Bios section of the Jefferson county genweb site;
Dr. Gordon P. Spencer was born in Salisbury, Litchfield Co CT on 29 April 1789, son of Eliphaz Spencer, a lineal descendant of William Spencer, who with brothers Thomas and Jared, were among the first settlers of Hartford, CT. Eliphaz, father of Gordon P., was a farmer by occupation; his mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Hall of E. Haddam CT. Gordon received his medical degree in New London in 1812. He was engaged in the 1812 War. After the fight at Fort Erie, the army went into winter quarters and Gordon was engaged in the hospital at Sacket's Harbor. After the War and on his way back to Litchfield, Gordon stopped to assist Dr. Durkee of Champion in attending a man who had his leg crushed; they made a partnership arrangement and after a short visit to Connecticut, Gordon returned to Champion. The following year he married Deborah Mallery of Rutland, formerly of Litchfield CT. His extended practice took him to Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence counties and Canada. The books on which he kept his accounts since 1814 showed over four thousand names and over thirty thousand dollars for which he received no remuneration. He spent 42 years as a doctor in Champion with the emphasis that the poor were always his first care. In 1854 he suffered from a fever that would not allow him to continue his heavy schedule and in 1857 he moved to Watertown. He died 25 March 1859.
Taken from the Pickering-Beach Museum list of War of 1812 Soldiers appearing on the Jefferson county genweb site.
From the Short Bios section of the Jefferson county genweb site;
Dr. Gordon P. Spencer was born in Salisbury, Litchfield Co CT on 29 April 1789, son of Eliphaz Spencer, a lineal descendant of William Spencer, who with brothers Thomas and Jared, were among the first settlers of Hartford, CT. Eliphaz, father of Gordon P., was a farmer by occupation; his mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Hall of E. Haddam CT. Gordon received his medical degree in New London in 1812. He was engaged in the 1812 War. After the fight at Fort Erie, the army went into winter quarters and Gordon was engaged in the hospital at Sacket's Harbor. After the War and on his way back to Litchfield, Gordon stopped to assist Dr. Durkee of Champion in attending a man who had his leg crushed; they made a partnership arrangement and after a short visit to Connecticut, Gordon returned to Champion. The following year he married Deborah Mallery of Rutland, formerly of Litchfield CT. His extended practice took him to Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence counties and Canada. The books on which he kept his accounts since 1814 showed over four thousand names and over thirty thousand dollars for which he received no remuneration. He spent 42 years as a doctor in Champion with the emphasis that the poor were always his first care. In 1854 he suffered from a fever that would not allow him to continue his heavy schedule and in 1857 he moved to Watertown. He died 25 March 1859.
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