Thomas Wilson Spence

Thomas W. Spence
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the Fond du Lac 3rd district
In office
January 6, 1879 – January 5, 1880
Preceded byJames Fitzgerald
Succeeded byJohn F. Ware
In office
January 1, 1877 – January 7, 1878
Preceded byLambert Brost
Succeeded byJames Fitzgerald
Personal details
Born(1846-09-02)September 2, 1846
Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, UK
DiedFebruary 23, 1912(1912-02-23) (aged 65)
Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Cause of deathHeart attack
Resting placeRienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Maria Cornelia Tallmadge
(m. 1874⁠–⁠1912)
Children
  • Thomas Henry Spence
  • (1875–1955)
Alma materCornell University
ProfessionLawyer
Signature

Thomas Wilson Spence (September 2, 1846 – February 23, 1912) was an Irish American immigrant, lawyer, and politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the city of Fond du Lac during the 1877 and 1879 sessions. As a young man, he was one of the "Ohio Five", who were among the early students of Cornell University. Spence rose to legal prominence in Milwaukee, and died of a heart attack in the chambers of the Wisconsin Supreme Court while making oral arguments. "He died with his tie on."[1][2]

Early life

Thomas Wilson Spence was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, in September 1846. He emigrated with his family to the United States in the midst of Án Gorta Mór or the Great Famine of 1845–1848. His family located at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was raised and educated. After completing his common school education, his family relocated to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1865. Spence quickly returned to Ohio, however, and attended Ohio Wesleyan University. After a year, in 1867, he entered Cornell University. He studied the classical course and graduated as valedictorian in 1870.[3]

While at Ohio Wesleyan, Spence joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and transferred to Cornell with several fraternity brothers. At Cornell, he was "the fourth founder" of the New York Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi. He was also a founding member of Cornell's Irving Literary Society.

Fond du Lac career

After graduating, Spence returned to Fond du Lac and began to study law in the office of Coleman & Thorpe. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and began practicing law in Fond du Lac.[3] In 1875, he formed a partnership with his former teacher, James Coleman, creating a firm known as Coleman & Spence. Coleman had also been postmaster at Fond du Lac, and Spence was appointed the new postmaster in 1879. That partnership continued until 1880, when Coleman moved to Washington, D.C., to become a partner for U.S. senator Matthew H. Carpenter. Spence formed a new partnership with a recent pupil, Joseph W. Hiner, in a firm known as Spence & Hiner.[4]

While prospering in his legal career, Spence also became active in politics as a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, serving in the 1877 and 1879 sessions.[5][6] He represented Fond du Lac County's 3rd Assembly district, which then comprised just the city of Fond du Lac.[5] He also presided as chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1884.[3]

Quarles, Spence & Quarles

In 1884, Spence left Fond du Lac and moved to Racine, Wisconsin, to partner with Joseph V. Quarles, whose previous partner, John B. Winslow, had just been elected Wisconsin circuit court judge. In 1888, they moved to Milwaukee to expand their practice, and admitted Joseph's brother, Charles Quarles, as a third partner. The firm was then known as Quarles, Spence & Quarles and became one of the leading law firms in Wisconsin.[3]

The firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles still survives, in some respects, in the 21st century. Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen S.C. traces its origins to the 1881 firm of Quarles & Winslow, the predecessor of Quarles, Spence & Quarles. The name of the firm remained Quarles, Spence & Quarles until 1957.[7]

Death

Mr. Spence's sudden death occurred in the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers at Madison. He was one of the attorneys in a case which was being argued and he was sitting at the attorneys' table. He suddenly fell across the table and when attendants reached his side he was dead. Although he had been one of the most active and best known lawyers in Wisconsin, he had not mixed in politics since the days when he practiced in Fond du Lac. Although pressed many times to be a candidate for office he had always refused.[2]

Two years after counselor Spence's death, it was written in the History of Wisconsin:

... the important law firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles, with offices in the Sentinel Building at Milwaukee. The interested principals in this firm are all able representatives of the second generation of their respective families in the legal profession in Wisconsin, since each of the members is a son of a distinguished Wisconsin lawyer, the fathers of the present members having likewise been associated in their practice. William C. and Joseph V. Quarles, Jr., are sons of the late Judge Joseph V. Quarles, who was one of the leading members of the Wisconsin bar and who served with distinction as United States Senator and United States District Judge. Thomas H. Spence, the other member of the firm, is a son of the late Thomas W. Spence, whose name is one of marked prominence in connection with the history of Wisconsin jurisprudence.[8]

Personal life and family

Thomas Spence married Maria Cornelia Tallmadge, of Granville, Wisconsin, in 1874. Cornelia was the sixth child of Montgomery Tallmadge and his wife Nancy Ann (née Eastman).[9] The Tallmadge family was descended from Thomas Talmadge, an English immigrant who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631.[10] The Talmadge family contained many prominent figures in American history, including Cornelia's great grandfather Benjamin Tallmadge, who was a significant spymaster for George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, who served as governor of the Wisconsin Territory, was a second cousin (twice-removed).[10]

Thomas and Cornelia had one child, Thomas Henry Spence, who graduated from Yale in 1899 and became a partner in his father's law firm.[9]

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (1876)

Wisconsin Assembly, Fond du Lac 3rd District Election, 1876[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
General Election, November 7, 1876
Republican Thomas W. Spence 1,469 50.52%
Democratic S. S. Bowers 1,439 49.48%
Plurality 30 1.03% -49.23%
Total votes 2,908 100.0% +38.28%
Republican gain from Democratic

Wisconsin Assembly (1878)

Wisconsin Assembly, Fond du Lac 3rd District Election, 1878[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
General Election, November 5, 1878
Republican Thomas W. Spence 1,055 48.68% +0.23%
Democratic John Bunnell 605 27.92%
Greenback James Fitzgerald (incumbent) 507 23.40% −28.15%
Plurality 450 20.77% +17.67%
Total votes 2,167 100.0% -2.87%
Republican gain from Greenback

References

  1. ^ "Thos. W. Spence Stricken Down in Court Room". Green Bay Press-Gazette. February 24, 1912. p. 1. Retrieved October 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ a b "Obituary: T. W. Spence '70" (PDF). Cornell Alumni News. XIV (22): 261. March 6, 1912. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Conard, Howard L. (1895). History of Milwaukee from its first settlement to the year 1895. Vol. 1. American Biographical Publishing Co. pp. 424–425. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  4. ^ History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Western Historical Company. 1880. pp. 584, 819, 851. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Official Directory". The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1877. p. 461. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Biographical Sketches". The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. 1879. p. 492. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  7. ^ "Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen S.C." Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  8. ^ Usher, Ellis Baker (1914). Wisconsin, its Story and Biography. Vol. 5. The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 1205–1206. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  9. ^ a b Rix, Guy Scoby (1901). History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America. p. 529. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  10. ^ a b Talmadge, Arthur White (1909). The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy. The Grafton Press. p. 289. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
Wisconsin State Assembly
Preceded by Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Fond du Lac 3rd district
January 1, 1877 – January 7, 1878
Succeeded by
James Fitzgerald
Preceded by
James Fitzgerald
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Fond du Lac 3rd district
January 6, 1879 – January 5, 1880
Succeeded by

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