Spence family.

John Spence immigrated from England in the mid-nineteenth century and worked as a stone contractor. John M. Spence was the first mayor of Cleveland Heights, Ohio (1904-07), served eighteen years on the Cleveland Heights Board of Education and was active in the state Republican Party executive committee. Along with his three brothers he operated Spence Brothers Construction Company. His nephew, Stanley L. Orr served with Troop A Cavalry Regiment in the Texas-Mexican border dispute of 1916-17 and was a judge and chairman of the Cleveland Chapter of the Red Cross during World War I.