Excerpt from The Ohio Educational Monthly, 1861, Vol. 10: A Journal of School and Home Education In 1836, Mr. Spencer was elected to the office of Assessor for the county of Ashtabula, which position he filled for two years, and was then elected County Treasurer, in which capacity he served twelve years, with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. In 1848, Mr. Spencer, in connection with Victor M. Rice, sub sequently Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of New York, first published his system of Writing in slip copies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.