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Notes for William Corbit Jr. SPRUANCE
From The Smyrna Times, Jan. 17, 1935
Col. William C. Spruance dies
Col. William Corbit Spruance, a vice-president and director of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, died Wednesday night at his residence, 2507 West Seventeenth Street, Wilmington, after a brief illness with pneumonia.
Mr. Spruance, who held the rank of colonel in the Ordinance Reserve Corps of the United States Army during the World War, was 62 years old.
Col. Spruance was a son of the late Judge William C. Spruance who was of the Spruance family in Smyrna, his grandfather being of the firm of P. & E. Spruance, prominent in the early life of Smyrna. His mother was Mrs. Marie Louise Spotswood Spruance.
He is survived by his wife, the former Alice Moore Lea, a daughter of the late Preston Lea, and three children, Preston Lea Spruance of Buffalo, N.Y., Miss Louisa Spotswood Spruance and William Willing Spruance, both of Wilmington. A brother, John S. Spruance of 2210 Gilpin Avenue, and a sister, Miss Edith Spruance, of 2427 West Sixteenth Street, also survive.
Col. Spruance had a distinguished career in business and in the service of his country. He was born September 26, 1873, in Wilmington and was educated at Princeton University. He was for a time a shop student at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. He then became assistant engineer for the Wilmington City Electric Company, manager of the Cellulose Products Company, and a construction engineer of Wilmington.
He entered the employ of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company in 1903 and was identified with the Explosives Department for many years.
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