BIO: George W. SPANGLER, Reading Township, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 505 GEORGE W. SPANGLER, miller, P. O. Hampton, was born in Reading Township, this county, January 21, 1844, and is a son of Rudolph and Mary (Snyder) Spangler, natives of Pennsylvania. His father spend his life in agricultural pursuits, and died in 1846. George W. was reared on a farm, remaining at home until he was ten years of age, when he was put out among strangers until eighteen years of age. He then learned the miller’s trade at Atheburg’s Mill, serving an apprenticeship of one year. He has worked in different places ever since. He has lately rented the grist-mill owned by William P. Himes, located about two miles northwest of Hampton, which he has operated about one year. He is a competent miller and does good work. He is a member of the Reformed Church; politically he is a Democrat.