Henry Christian Spencer (June 24, 1915 – May 30, 1999) was an American businessman and executive at the Kerite Company in Seymour, Connecticut.
His father, William Henry Spencer, attended Tilford Collegiate Academy and graduated from the Illinois College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1904.
Henry Spencer attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, and graduated from Iowa State College in 1936 with a B.S.
In 1973, he reported that the company employees had voted against joining the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers Union.
"[5] He represented Kerite and served as Chairman of the Wire and Cable Division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
He served as chairman of the Manufacturers Council of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Chamber of Commerce, and worked on projects including a 'clergy-industry conference,' and the establishment of the Waterbury-Oxford Airport[6] He was also the industrial chairman for the first Valley United Fund Drive, and he sought donations from over 150 corporations for a variety of community organizations.
Between 1953 and 1963, he was a feature in multiple musicals and was a founding member a comic opera group at the Middlebury Congregational Church.
[15] He was also a founder and president of the Spencer Historical and Genealogical Society, and authored many important articles in its quarterly journal, Le Despencer.
He married Evelyn Margaret Burchard on December 28, 1938, in the chapel of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids.
Together, they had five children, and one (William Henry) who died in infancy: Samuel, Thomas, Stella, Michael, and Rebecca Spencer.
Their family raised many animals, including horses, a donkey named Oscar, cows, sheep, chickens, cats and dogs.
In the summers of 1956 and 1958, they hosted dog obedience classes at their farm, which helped to train their German Shepherd, run by Wilbur Gift of the Mattatuck Kennel Club.
In 1988, he presented a lecture entitled "Clergy of the Revolutionary War" to the Green Valley Chapter of the Arizona Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
In 1989, he travelled to attend the commissioning of the USS Philippine Sea in Portland, Maine, for which his son Mike was one of the top three officers on the ship.