Katherine Emmons Force

Katherine Emmons Force Spencer (March 12, 1891 – September 8, 1956) was an American real estate investor and socialite. She was a member of the zoning board for Newport, Rhode Island.

Personal life On December 6, 1922, Force was married to Lorillard Suydam Spencer (1883–1939) at the home of her sister, then Mrs. William Karl Dick, at 7 East 84th Street. Lorillard, who was divorced from his first wife, Mary Ridgeley Sands, was the son of Lorillard Spencer and Caroline Suydam (née Berryman) Spencer. Together they had two sons and a daughter:

Katherine Talmage Lorillard Spencer (1923–1992), who married Joseph Henry Doherty (1923–1992) in 1957. Stephen Wolcott Spencer (1925–2010), who wed Marjorie Potts, daughter of Owen Lewis Potts of Santiago, Chile, in 1957. William Hurlbut Force Spencer (1929–2022), who married Louise Thacher Jones (1927–2013) in 1956.

Later in her life, she became a real estate investor and was a member of the zoning board for Newport.

Her husband died in 1939. She died of a heart attack at her cottage, Chasteullux, in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 8, 1956.