Lewis Spence

Stone at the Church of the Ascension

Born: October 31, 1920

Died: May 12, 1998

Married: Eleanor K. Spence

Children: Padraic, Harry, Matthew, Olivia

Lewis H. Spence was a grandson of John R. Dunlap, who owned great camp Woodwil on Markham Point, Upper Saranac Lake .  Spence spent four summers with his grandfather at Woodwil, starting in 1930 when he was 11, an experience that he wrote about in A Mountain View, published posthumously in 2002.  Spence has a stone in the tiny cemetery near Church of the Ascension in Saranac Inn; two matching stones nearby list Eleanor K. Spence (1921 - 2003) and Colin Sewell Spence (1969 - 1995).

External link:

• Neal Burdick, Adirondack Explorer, January 2003, Review of Spence's A Mountain View