Lebbeus Foster Spencer

Birth: 17 Feb 1833
Spencerport, Monroe County, New York, USA
Death: 24 Dec 1904 (aged 71)
Spencerport, Monroe County, New York, USA
Burial: Fairfield Cemetery

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Mr. Spencer's first name had been misspelled in many records; however, it was the investigation of Dick Miller, North Andover, MA that corrected the spelling from Libbeus to the rightful Lebbeus.

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U. S. Indian Agent, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota Territory

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Daniel Spencer

1780–1835
Polly Spencer

1798–1864

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Joseph Arnold Spencer

1828–1914
John H. Spencer

1830–1834

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Harriet Cleveland "Hattie" Spencer Lund

1868–1941

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L. F. Spencer's arrival marked a temporary time of harmony and adjustment, short lived as it was, by the Sioux.From what Dick Miller has been able to piece together, he has ascertained that L.F. Spencer was appointed in 1885 by President Grover Cleveland to be Indian Agent on the Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Dakota Territory. Photos Miller was able to obtain indicate that L.F. Spencer was in the middle of the action surrounding the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. He served at Rosebud during a time when the other Sioux reservations were gaining notoriety from Indian attacks, full-scale wars, problems with Sitting Bull, and religious events leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. He served with the 1888 Sioux Commission led by Capt. Richard Pratt, who founded the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He stood side-by-side with Major James McLaughlin,the Indian Agent at Standing Rock Reservation who ordered the arrest of Sitting Bull, which led to his death. He accompanied a large delegation of Sioux Chiefs to Washington D.C. in October 1888 to meet President Cleveland. Spencer was born in Spencerport in 1833 and died in Spencerport in 1904. He is buried in the Fairfield Cemetery. He was a charter member of the Etolian Lodge 479 F&AM, chartered June 9, 1860, and was supervisor of the town of Ogden, 1878-80. In census records, he is identified as a coal yard operator.

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The Washington trip was found in the obituary of L. F. Spencer (Obituary, 1903), ". . .during this time (at Rosebud), the government appointed a commission to make a treaty with theSioux. . .Mr. Spencer later took a company consisting of seventy-five of the big Indian Chiefs to Washington to carry on the negotiations." From this trip, Mr. Spencer told an interesting story relating to a chief who thought the white mento be no more numerous than the Indians. The Chief was determined to settle the question by taking a big stick on the journey to Washington and cutting a notch for every house he observed. Within a short distance, according to Spencer, the stick was so filled with notches that the chief was convinced of the superior number of whites (Obituary, 1903). Spencer made a further comment to this trip in his diary, "Indians slept in the hall in front of my door in Washington . . ."(Notebook, ca.1888).

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Lebbeus Foster Spencer is in front Row, in white suit, 1888

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