Background
Spencer, Jesse Ames was born on June 17, 1816 in Hyde Park, New York, United States. Son of Reuben and Mary (Ames) Spencer.
Spencer, Jesse Ames was born on June 17, 1816 in Hyde Park, New York, United States. Son of Reuben and Mary (Ames) Spencer.
Attended Trinity School, 1833-1834. Graduate Columbia, 1837, South.T.D. (honorary), 1852. Graduate General Theological Seminary, 1840.
South.T.D. (honorary), Trinity College, 1872.
Ordained deacon Episcopal Church, 1840, priest, 1841. Edited Greek and Latin textbooks for Doctorate. Appleton & Company, circa 1843-circa 1848. Edited monthly magazine The Young Churchman’s Miscellany, 1845-1848.
Professor Latin and Oriental languages
Burlington (New Jersey) College, 1850-1851. Editor, secretary Episcopal Sunday School Union of New York, 1851-1857 rector Saint Paul’s Church, Flatbush (Brooklyn), 1863-1865.
Secretary Corporation of the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen in New York, circa 1865. Professor Greek, New York University, 1869-1879.
Author: The Christian Instructed in the Ways of the Gospel and the Church, 1844.
The East, 1850. History of the United States, 4 volumes, 1858. Sketch if the History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, 1878.
Papalism versus Catholic Truth and Light, 1896.
Editor: The New Testament in Greek, 1847.
Married Sarah J.E. Loutrel, September 4, 1840, at least 1 surviving child.