Career
Born in Scotland in 1815, William Wallace Spence immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen with only one-hundred dollars in his pocket. Later, he founded the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company and became an officer of The Eutaw Savings Bank. Spence was a pillar in the Baltimore community.
He is best known for erecting a thirteen-foot, iron statue of William Wallace, the Scottish martyr, in 1893 in Druid Hill Park and donating a copy of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Christus Consolator to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1896.
