BIO:  Jacob SPANGLER, Jr., Germany 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, Page 434

JACOB SPANGLER, Jr., farmer, P.O. Littlestown, was born November 23, 1839, in 
Mountjoy Township, this county.  The Spangler family were originally natives of 
Switzerland, and of the four brothers who came together from that country two 
settled south and two west of York, York Co., Penn.  Rudy, one of the four, 
married, and had a family of five children, of whom Jacob was born April 27, 
1803, in York County, and there married Elizabeth Detter, who was born May 25, 
1807, daughter of Matthias and Susannah (Bobe) Detter.  To this union were born 
ten children, all now living:  Edward, Sarah, Samuel, Elizabeth, David, Jacob, 
Matthias, Susannah A., Barnhart and George William.  Jacob Spangler, Sr., who 
has been a farmer all his life, in 1829 settled in Mountjoy Township, this 
county, where he farmed until he came to Littlestown in 1876, since which time 
he has lived a retired life.  His son, Jacob, Jr., was educated in this 
township, was reared on a farm, but has lived in town since his father moved 
here, and is now taking care of his aged parents.  He has been an exemplary 
citizen all his life.  In politics he is a Democrat.