Kenneth Helen Spencer of Kansas by Kenneth F. Crockett

Author:Kenneth F. Crockett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

A college picture of Charles Favor Spencer from his University of Kansas days.

Kenneth, Harold, Charles Favor and Galen at a rare family gathering in1940.

Clara devoted Sunday to the Lord, so much so that the playing of her favorite game, contract bridge, was prohibited on Sundays (and she was a dedicated bridge player, even demanding that her maid know the game). Consistent with her belief that one only performed the Lord’s work on Sunday, Clara would not allow her sons to attend Sunday movies. Later, when she was a grandmother, Harold and Hazel would always tell their boys to not let Grandmother Clara know they had gone to a Sunday movie. 20

Clara banned alcohol from her house, and being an ardent Republican, Democrats were also banned from the Spencer household, as were Jews, Roman Catholics and African Americans. 21 There are no documents recording what her reaction was to Kenneth marrying an Episcopalian.

After beginning as an assistant bookkeeper and then progressing through promotions to treasurer, general manager and finally president, Charles ultimately assumed management of the company’s two mines. Clara’s contribution was to help maintain the company’s books. Charles spent most of his time each week riding freight trains while selling coal.

In the early 1900s, Charles and C. Newlands formed the Spencer-Newlands Coal Company, with Charles continuing to work for his father’s business, Columbus Coal Company. 22 Spencer-Newlands established two shaft mines, Nos. 9 and 11, near Mulberry, Kansas, for the purpose of supplying coal to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company.

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