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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.

Katherine Emmons Force was born on March 12, 1891 in Brooklyn, New York. She was the elder daughter of William Hurlbut Force (1852–1917) and Katherine Arvilla (née Talmage) Force (1864–1939). Her younger sister Madeleine was the wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV of the Astor family, who died during the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

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:

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.

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