Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Spangler, George Frank 
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Author: Past & Present Will County IL 1907

GEORGE FRANK SPANGLER. The Spangler family, of which George Frank Spangler is 
a representative, was established at an early day in Pennsylvania, where 
several generations have been represented. George Spangler, father of our 
subject, was a farmer and also a veterinary surgeon throughout his entire life 
and this pursuit was followed by his father, his grandfather and also 
constitutes a department of the business of his son, George F. Spangler, of 
this review. Mr. Spanglers parents came to Will county in 1848 and settled in 
Wheatland township, where his father rented land until the early '50s, when he 
bought one hundred and sixty acres, but added to the first purchase until at 
the time of his death he owned four hundred and twenty acres. In 1877 he 
removed to Lockport, where he remained until his death. He died at the age of 
seventy-six years, while the mother of our subject, who bore the maiden name 
of Catherine Kopp, is still living in Lockport, at the age of seventy-six 
years. George F. Spangler pursued his early education in the public schools 
and afterward attended Jennings Seminary, at Aurora, Illinois. He was reared 
to the occupation of farming and to the practice of veterinary surgery. He 
early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the 
agriculturist and remained on the old homestead until about twenty-seven years 
of age, when he began business on his own account by the purchase of a small 
tract of land. To this he has since added until he is now the owner of a 
valuable property of one hundred and sixty acres. In connection with the 
tilling of the soil he has raised Norman horses and has owned a number of 
registered stallions. For thirty-five years he has also been a practicing 
veterinary surgeon, thus following in the footsteps of his father, his 
grandfather and his great-grandfather, who have been representatives of the 
profession. On the 2d of September, 1875, Mr. Spangler was married to Miss 
Kate Poore, of Dupage township, a daughter of Morris and Frances M. (Taylor) 
Poore, who came to Lockport in 1832, being among the first to settle in this 
township, where they spent their remaining days. The Taylors came originally 
from New York and the Poores from Virginia. Mr. Poore is still living at the 
very venerable age of eighty-eight years, but his wife passed away at the age 
of sixty-four years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have been born six children, 
who are still living: Sacia F., who married Clara Bronk, of Neosca, Illinois; 
George O., who wedded Nellie Gardner, of Lockport; Henry M., living in 
Lockport; Edward C., a resident of Kansas City, Missouri, and an engineer on 
the Missouri Pacific Railway; Raymond R., a student in Chicago, and Ethel F., 
at home. They also lost two children in infancy. Mr. Spangler exercises his 
right of franchise in support of the movements and measures of the republican 
party and is one of its stalwart champions, active in its work, although he 
does not seek or desire office for himself. He has, however, served for seven 
years as commissioner of highways and was clerk of the school board for nine 
years, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools by 
the employment of competent teachers and the adoption of new and improved 
methods of instruction. He was the organizer of Spangler Grange, now having a 
membership of about two hundred, and for twelve years was its treasurer. He 
also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his business life he 
has won a goodly measure of prosperity, owing entirely to his persistency of 
purpose and unfaltering industry. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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