Spencer F. Eddy

Spencer Fayette Eddy (June 18, 1873 – October 7, 1939) His father made his fortune as a businessman and his mother was a member of a family who ran a successful hardware business. At the time, "European diplomats consider Buenos Ayres the livest political centre in South America, particularly from the American point of view, and they regard Mr. Eddy's designation for the mission as a distinct and well-deserved compliment." He presented his credentials on August 27, 1908, and served until January 2, 1909, when he left his post. In August 1908, Eddy informed the Department of State, "of the vote by the Chamber of Deputies of a credit of $55,000,000 for additional armaments in view of the alleged hostile intentions of Brazil." Nine days after he left his post in Argentina, he was appointed Minister to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent to Bulgaria on January 11, 1909. He presented his credentials in Romania on July 9, 1909, as a resident at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Serbia or Bulgaria.

After fifteen years in the diplomatic service, he resigned due to his wife's ill health and left his post on September 29, 1909.

Personal life On April 26, 1906, Eddy was married to Lurline Elizabeth Spreckels (1886–1969) in Paris while he was an attaché at the American embassy in Saint Petersburg. She was a daughter of Claus August Spreckels and Susan Oroville (née Dore) Spreckels. Her grandfather was industrialist Claus Spreckels and among her extended family was uncles John D. Spreckels and Adolph B. Spreckels. Before their divorce in 1923, they were the parents of:

Spencer Fayette Eddy Jr. (b. 1907), who married Mary Livingston, a daughter of Gerald Moncrieffe Livingston, in 1935. They divorced and she remarried to Dr. Sidney Dillon Ripley II.

In 1932, he married Viola Cross, who reportedly did not get along with his sister.

Eddy died on October 7, 1939, at his apartment in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.