Thomas Wilson Spence [SEP] date of death
Thomas Wilson Spence
Thomas Wilson Spence (September 2, 1846 – February 23, 1912) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was a Wisconsin lawyer and a Republican member of the Wisconsin Legislature. A member of the "Ohio Five" matriculating at Cornell University during that institution's early years, counselor Spence died suddenly, aged 65, on February 23, 1912, while making oral argument in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Chambers at Madison, Wisconsin. "He died with his tie on."
Early life.
Mr. Spence
and Montgomery Wilson Talmidge (1816–1887), hardware merchant, whose parents were from New York. Mr. Spence and his wife had one child, Thomas Henry Spence, a Yale man, class of 1899.
Career.
Spence began the practice of law at Fond du Lac, hanging his own shingle as the law firm of Coleman & Spence, which then changed its name to Spence & Hiner. He served as postmaster of the town from 1879 to 1883. In 1877 and 1879 he was a member of the Wisconsin