Lillian White Spencer Papers

Lilian White Spencer was a well-known Colo. poet. She was born in 1876 in Albany, N.Y., the fifth of nine children of Frederick W. and Catherine (McGurk) White. At the time of her birth, Spencer's father was a writer for and part owner of the Albany Union. Eventually the family left New York and moved to Denver, Colo. where Frederick White became an editorial writer, critic, and essayist for the Denver Post. Lilian Spencer followed her father into journalism before marrying actor, George Soule Spencer (1874-1949). During her marriage Spencer lived in New York City and her writing centered on the theater in the form of play reviews, script revisions, the writing of plays and scenarios for silent movies. She returned to Denver, Colo. after the death of her parenst and disolution of her marrige. In 1944, she and her younger brother, Frank E. White (1881-1973) sold the family home at 1490 Stuart Street in Denver and moved to Oceanside, Calif. where she died on June 23, 1953.