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Edward Falles Spence : ウィキペディア英語版 | Edward Falles Spence
Edward Falles Spence, known as E.F. Spence, (1832–1892) was a California banker, entrepreneur and property developer who was a member of the state legislature, a Nevada County official and the mayor of Los Angeles, California, in 1884–86. ==Personal== Spence was born on December 22, 1832, in Enniskillen, Ireland, the son of Gabriel Spence. He was educated there by private tutors, and at the age of 20 he emigrated to America and worked on a farm near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for several months, then shipped to California via the Nicaragua route, arriving in San Francisco in December 1852. He spent some twenty years in Northern California and Nevada, settling in San Jose, California.〔(Clare Wallace, Los Angeles Public Library biographical file, with references as cited there )〕 He was married about 1869 in California to Anna Maria Spence of Five Mile Town, County Tyrone, Ireland, and they had four children, William Glenn, George Edward, Albert Harry and Kathleen.〔 Spence died of heart failure September 19, 1892, in the home of a friend, John A. Fairchild, on Burlington Avenue〔() Location of the Spence home on ''Mapping L.A.〕 near Ninth Street, in today's Westlake district, Los Angeles. He was 59 years old.〔("A Public Loss," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 20, 1892, page 4 )〕 The September 22 obsequies, which began in the family home on Burlington Avenue, were said to be "in point of attendance one of the largest ever held in this city" and the funeral procession to Evergreen Cemetery "one of the largest ever witnessed."〔("Laid to Rest: Impressive Funeral Services of the Late E.F. Spence," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 23, 1892, page 4 )〕
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