BIO:  FRANCIS H. SPANGLER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 827-828
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    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  827

    FRANCIS H. SPANGLER, who carries on farming on a small scale in East
  Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, is a native of that township, born
  Oct. 3, 1857, on what is known as the Harry Musser farm.

    Jacob Spangler, his father, was born in Dauphin county, Pa., and was the
  eighth of a family of nine children, viz.: George, who died in Dauphin
  county, Pa.; Jacob, Peter and William, who died in York county, Pa.; John,
  David, Susan, Nancy and Betsy, all deceased. Jacob Spangler passed his early
  life in the neighborhood of his birthplace, and when a young man married Miss
  Troups. He settled in Dover, York Co., Pa., for one year, then going west to
  the State of Illinois, where he remained eight years. There his wife died
  leaving him and three small children, John, Samuel and Josephine. Returning
  east to York county, he lived there a short time, then marrying Mary Crone
  and moving to Cumberland county, near West Fairview, following his trade,
  that of fencemaker, in York and Cumberland counties. Moving back to York
  county about 1858, he later bought a small farm in Newberry township, that
  county, where he remained until 1889. Having become incapacitated for work by
  rheumatism, he was obliged to retire, and he died in June, 1891, in Goldsboro,
  York county, aged sixty-nine years. The three children of Mr. Spangler's first
  union, John, Samuel and Josephine, Mrs. Jacob Berger, all live in Illinois.
  For his second wife Jacob Spangler married, in York county, Mary Crone, who
  still resides at Goldsboro, now (1904) aged seventy-two years. To this
  marriage came eight children: Alfred, who married Miss Ida Mansberger of York
  county, and lives in the old home place in York county; Francis H.; Zacharias,
  who died when young; George, who died when seventeen years old; Edward, a
  farmer of York county, who married Lydia Gensler, of Wellsville, York county;
  Harry, a farmer of York county, who married Annie Zinn; Charles, who remains
  with his mother, and Dora, Mrs. Luis Groos, of Goldsboro, both of York
  county. The parents were members of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Spangler
  was a Republican in political sentiment.

    Francis H. Spangler attended school in York county, and at West Fairview,
  Cumberland county, his parents moving into York county during his infancy. He
  returned to East Pennsboro township when he was about nine years old. He was
  reared to farming and was only ten years old when he hired out as a farm boy,
  working at first for his board and clothes. Later he received ten dollars a
  month and board through the summer months, in the winter working for his
  board. After his marriage he located in West Fairview, where he was employed
  in the iron works, in the plate mill, at the same time also carrying on
  farming on a small scale, continuing thus for nine years. He then rented a
  farm in Fairview township, York county, where he remained three years, thence
  removing to Lower Allen township, Cumberland county, where he conducted one of
  the McCormick farms for eight years. He then removed to his present home,
  which comprises eleven acres, which he cultivated to the utmost extent of its
  possibilities, deriving much benefit therefrom. He is an industrious man, and
  is greatly respected by all who know him.

    Mr. Spangler was married in Harrisburg, Nov. 2, 1879, to Miss Barbara Mann,
  who was born near West Fairview, East Pennsboro township, daughter of George
  and Mary (Eslinger) Mann, she being the youngest of a family of nine
  children, two sons and seven daughters. Mr. Mann was

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  a native of East Pennsboro and a lifelong agriculturist of that township.
  He was born on his farm, and died there, and it is a noteworthy fact that
  until about five years ago the place was always in the Mann name from the
  days of the first settlers. George Mann never left the place and his children
  all remained there till after their marriage. Mrs. Mann is also deceased.

    Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have had one child, Mary Emma, who is now the wife of
  Charles Lichtenberger, of East Pennsboro, who resides in Lemoyne. Our subject
  and his wife are members of the Evangelical Church of Lemoyne. In politics he
  follows in the footsteps of his father, being a Republican.