BIO:  George SPANGLER, Cumberland Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 403-404

GEORGE SPANGLER, retired farmer, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Straban Township, 
this county, December 19, 1815, a son of Abraham and Mary (Knupp) Spangler, 
natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent, the former a farmer by 
occupation.  Abraham and Mary Spangler were the parents of ten children, all of 
whom grew to manhood and womanhood, George being the eldest.  Our subject grew 
up on a farm and received such an education as was obtainable at the schools of 
his district, and has since made farming the occupation of his life.  By good 
management, economy and industry Mr. Spangler has succeeded in acquiring a 
competency sufficient to comfortably support himself and life companion in their 
declining years, and has given to his children a good start in life.  March 26, 
1841, he was married to Elizabeth Brinkerhoff, daughter of Cornelius and 
Elizabeth (Snyder) Brinkerhoff, natives of Pennsylvania and of Holland-Dutch and 
German descent, respectively.  To Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have been born the 
following named children:  Harriet J., wife of Samuel Swartz; Sabina Catherine, 
wife of William Patterson, a farmer of Cumberland Township, this county, who 
served in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 
in the civil war; Daniel, who is engaged in the carpenter business in the West; 
and B. J., a farmer of Cumberland Township, who, in 1876, was married to Sally 
M. Conover, who bore him one child, Mary E.  B. J. votes, as does his father, 
the Democratic ticket, and is a member of the Lutheran Church, to which his 
parents belong.  George Spangler has been an elder in this church for many 
years, and his son, B. J., has been a deacon in the same church.