Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Spencer, Cornelia Phillips

SPENCER, Cornelia Phillips, author, b. in Harlem, N. Y., 20 March, 1825. She is the daughter of the Rev. James Phillips (q. v.), who was professor of mathematics in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was educated there, and married James M. Spencer, of Alabama, who died in 1861. Mrs. Spencer has contributed to current literature, and is the author of “The Last Ninety Days of the War” (New York, 1807). She is now (1898) writing a “History of North Carolina.”