Descendants of Capt. Arthur Fenner
Alexander Wilson Fenner Jr.
[b 8 Oct. 1859 at Providence, RI; d 4 Jan. 1938 at Pasadena, CA] Alexander Wilson Fenner Jr. m Alice Vivian Spear [b 17 Feb. 1865 in Rockland, ME; d 26 Dec. 1956 at Los Angeles, CA], daughter of Alfred K. Spear and Angelina A. Thorndike, on 9 Aug. 1887 in Rockland, ME. Alex was a pharmacist. He opened his own store in Providence in 1885. It was described by historian Welcome Greene in 1886:
Alexander W. Fenner, Jr., opened a pharmacy in 1885, at No. 351 Westminster Street, where he is building up a substantial and permanent trade. The premises in which the store was opened are what was for many years known as the Stephen K. Rathbone estate, which, like the Conrad and Hoppin estates below it, has historic interest.
In the management of his business Mr. Fenner is making a specialty of physicians’ prescriptions, and selects the best of drugs and chemicals. He also manufactures his own soda water, and keeps on draught a variety of pure mineral waters for family use, which have an established reputation. He is a careful and trustworthy pharmacist, and his prescription trade is constantly increasing.
His cousin Albert W. Fenner also operated a pharmacy in Providence. He and Alice moved to Pasadena between 1918 and 1920. Alex died of pernicious anemia, from which he had suffered for about four years, and acute cystitis, diagnosed about ten days previously. Although he died in Pasadena, he was buried in Providence. Alex and Alice had no children.