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Dr. Edwin V. Spencer, who at the time of his death was one of the oldest and most successful physicians of Posey county, was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, and was one of a family of nine children born to Mathias and Harriet (Smith) Spencer, natives respectively of Connecticut and Vermont. He grew to manhood in his native county, where he secured a common school education and later attended an academy at Sherburne, N. Y. He began the study of medicine when nineteen years of age, and was graduated from the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College in 1851. He came to Posey county in the spring of 1852 and located in Mt. Vernon. He was one of the oldest physicians and surgeons in the county in his day. Making money in the practice and investing it in real estate, which afterwards increased greatly in value, he became quite wealthy, and at his death left a large landed estate. In February, 1852, he married Sarah J. Baxter, of Erie county, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of eight children, four of whom are now living. One of them, George W., is a distinguished physician and surgeon of Philadelphia. The doctor was a Democrat in politics, and in his later years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a member of the Indiana Medical Society. On March 28, 1902, he joined the “Silent Majority,” “And there shall be no night (riding) there.”