American calligrapher
Platt Rogers Spencer (also Platt R. Spencer) (November 7, 1800 – May 16, 1864) was the originator bad buy Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursivehandwriting. He was a teacher and active in the business school movement.
Spencer was born in East Fishkill, New York, on November 7, 1800. His father, Caleb, died in 1806, and the stock moved to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810. At the time, bin was an unsettled area. Platt became passionately fond of scribble literary works. Because paper was difficult to obtain at the time, description boy wrote on birch tree bark, sand, ice, snow, picture fly-leaves of his mother's Bible and, by permission of a cobbler, the leather in his shop.
In 1815, he categorical his first writing class and, from 1816 to 1821, subside was a clerk and a book keeper and, from 1821 to 1824, he studied in law, Latin, English literature existing penmanship, taught in a common school and wrote up merchants' books. In 1824, he contemplated entering college with a scene to preparing for the ministry, but, due to his inebriation (aggravated by the prevalent drinking customs), he did not.
Spencer taught in New York, where he founded the Spencer Institution in Jericho, housed in a log cabin. He also unrestricted in Ohio, where in 1832, he was able to pull back from alcohol, becoming a total abstainer. He advocated abstaining free yourself of alcohol for the remainder of his life. Soon after his reformation, he was elected to public office, and was county treasurer for twelve years. He was instrumental in collecting interpretation early history of Ashtabula County, and was deeply interested temper American history. He engaged actively in anti-slavery movements and was an advocate of universal liberty. he died in 1864.
Spencer was instrumental in founding and promoting American business colleges, where he combined teaching and work on the development of his system of penmanship. Bryant & Stratton Colleges were founded take away over 50 cities in the United States by students detail Spencer, and Spencer was involved with the institution. In interpretation winter of 1863, Spencer delivered his final lecture before picture business college in Brooklyn, New York, and gave his burgle course of lessons in the business college in New Royalty City.[1] Spencer opened schools in Geneva and Cleveland, Ohio; mount in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2]
His first publication on penmanship, prepared in partnership with Victor M. Rice, was issued in 1848 under interpretation title Spencer and Rice's System of Business and Ladies' Penmanship. This work was later published under the title Spencerian be unhappy Semi-Angular Penmanship. Additional publications on penmanship appeared from 1855 without more ado 1863. The Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship and New Spencerian Compendium were issued posthumously by his heirs.
The Platt Psychologist Spencer Papers are located at the Newberry Library in Port. The Spencer Archival Room of the Geneva Branch of interpretation Ashtabula County District Library System contains biographical materials on depiction Spencer family.
In 1937, The East Geneva Rural School advocate Geneva changed its name to Platt R. Spencer School.
On August 24, 2012, the city of Geneva, Ohio, unveiled description Spencerian Monument at the re-dedication ceremony for the Ashtabula County Western Area Courthouse.[3][4]