"Born in Brooklyn 64 years ago, Mr. Spencer was taken to Ithaca when he was one and lived there until he was 16. He returned to New York that year and completed high school there.... He was the second man to volunteer for service with the 369th Regiment of the New York National Guard after the United States' entry into World War I. He was wounded in France."

Obituary of Frank E. Spencer, The Montclair Times (Montclair, NJ), June 21, 1956, 6.