Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Spangler, Samuel D 
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Author: Past & Present Will County IL 1907

Samuel D. Spangler, a member of the firm of Spangler & Armagast, grocers, of 
Joliet, claims Pennsylvania as his state of nativity, his birth having 
occurred in Center county on the 18th of December, 1846. His father, Samuel 
Spangler, was likewise born in that state and there spent his entire life, 
passing away at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, Mrs. Margaret 
Spangler, was likewise born in the Keystone state and there resided until her 
death, at the age of seventy-four. Samuel D. Spangler attended school in 
Pennsylvania until seventeen years of age, when he secured employment in a dry-
goods store in Lewistown, that state, where he remained until the fall of 
1876. That year witnessed his arrival in Joliet, and here he entered the 
employ of J. Reichert, proprietor of a grocery and general mercantile 
establishment, in which he remained as a salesman until March, 1900, when he 
joined Charles S. Armagast in the purchase of the grocery business upon the 
death of Mr. Reichert. They have since conducted the store at the old location—
No. 407 Washington street—and have developed the business to large and 
profitable proportions, having a good patronage which they draw from among the 
best class of Joliet's citizens. Mr. Spangler was married in Lewistown, 
Pennsylvania, to Miss Annie E. Van Zandt, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Van Zandt, the father owning a line of boats on the Juniata canal for a number 
of years. Both he and his wife are now deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Spangler 
was born one daughter, Mary, who is now a student in the Joliet high school. 
Both Mr. Armagast and Mr. Spangler are accorded recognition as reliable and 
enterprising business men. They came from the same county in the east and 
during thirty years their business record has been as an open book which will 
bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. 

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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