Emily Spencer Hayden was a photographer who lived in and around Baltimore, Maryland.
Background
Emily Harrison Spencer was born near Randallstown at her family’s farm, called The Martin’s Nest to Edward Spencer (1834–1883) and A. C. Bradford "Braddie" Harrison Spencer (1841–1882). Braddie Spencer was born in Talbot County, Maryland, and the couple married in 1861.
Career
Edward Spencer was a writer and dramatist who wrote at times for the Baltimore Bulletin and The Baltimore Sun, and whose best known play was Kit, the Arkansas Traveler.He also collaborated with J. Thomas Scharf on his historical works on Baltimore City. The Spencer family had 4 children, Emily, Katharine, Robert, and Webster Lindsley. Sometime before 1880 they moved to Baltimore city so that Edward would be closer to his literary colleagues and for access to formal education for the children.
Early career and family Emily Spencer graduated from Baltimore’s Western High School as valedictorian in 1878.
After Charles’ graduation from law school and acceptance to the bar, the two married on September 1, 1893. Their first child, Ruth, was born in 1895, followed by Catherine Spencer Hayden in 1902, and Anna Bradford Hayden in 1905.
In 1906, the family moved to a home called "Nancy’s Fancy" in Catonsville near the Mountain. de Sales Academy. The house was torn down in 1970 to build the Christian Temple Church.