Philip Loring Spooner | |
Birth Date: | 5 October 1879 |
Birth Place: | Hudson, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Death Place: | New York City, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Forest Hill Cemetery, |
Education: | University of Wisconsin |
Occupation: | Singer |
Father: | John Coit Spooner |
Philip Loring Spooner (October 5, 1879May 16, 1945) was an American tenor.[1]
He was born on October 5, 1879, in Hudson, Wisconsin, to John Coit Spooner and Anne Elizabeth Maine.[1] [2] [3]
He attended Columbia Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., then the University of Wisconsin. He debuted as a professional singer in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1913.[1] In 1916 he was arrested for assaulting a cab driver with his walking stick. While in detention he sang Mother Macree to the other detainees.[4]
He never married and resided with his mother until her death in 1930.[2] He died on May 16, 1945.