Spencer, Guinilda Ethelia.

The creator of the journals was Guinilda Ethelia Mummey. Ms. Mummey was from a prominant Baltimore family. Her journal contains many contributions from family, clergy and prominent merchants suggesting that members of her family were also merchants.

Most interesting are the contributions from a young man then 25 years old named Edward Spencer. Spencer was a merchant and, in 1833, was married to Guinilda. In 1834 Guinilda gave birth to Edward Spencer who would grow up to become one of Baltimore's "brightest luminaries in the literary world."

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