BIOGRAPHY: Albert B. SPANOGLE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 460-461.

  ALBERT B. SPANOGLE, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born near Saltillo, 
Huntingdon county, Pa., July 22, 1851, son of Andrew and Sarah (Baer) Spanogle.  
His paternal grandparents were Andrew and Sarah Spanogle, whose children were:  
Jacob;  John;  Andrew;  Catherine;  Samuel;  David and one who died after his 
marriage.  Mr. Spanogle's maternal grandparents were Daniel and Sarah Bare.  
Their children are:  Mary;  Sarah (Mrs. Andrew Spanogle);  Peter and Daniel.  
Andrew Spanogle, after receiving the limited education then attainable in rural 
districts, continued maintaining himself by farm labor during his minority.  In 
1864-65 he was engaged in mercantile business at Loysburg, Bedford county, Pa., 
and during the latter part of 1865 removed to Lewistown, where he built the 
North American tannery.  Here he conducted on a large scale the manufacture of 
sole leather until 1879, when he sold his interest to his former partner, 
William M. Pennebaker, and bought the Mt. Rock mills in Derry township.  
Associating with him his son, Albert B., under the firm name of Spanogle & Son, 
they carried on the business as merchant millers until November 1, 1881, when 
Mr. Spanogle bought the Reedsville mill in Brown township, and retired from 
business, leaving as his successors his sons Albert B. and Edwin, and his son-
in-law, William J. Yeager.  They still conduct the business with success and on 
an extensive scale.  The children of Andrew and Sarah (Bare) Spanogle, who are 
both of German descent, are:  Daniel, who died in 1877;  Mary, who died in 1878;  
Elizabeth (Mrs. M. D. Barndoller);  Albert B.;  Elmira (Mrs. W. J. Yeager);  
Edwin, married Martha McKee;  Annie C.;  Della;  Harry, married Annie Mohler;  
and Flora.
  Before the removal of the family to Lewistown, when Albert B. Spanogle was 
thirteen, he had attended the Huntingdon county public schools;  he continued 
for some time in the public schools in his new home, and then became a pupil in 
the academy of Lewistown, completing his preparation for his life work by a 
course at the Peirce College of Business, in Philadelphia, from which he 
received his diploma in 1873.  The brief story of his connection with the 
milling business founded by his father, has been told above, sufficient to say 
that Mr. Spanogle is now the able senior partner in the firm of Spanogle & 
Yeager, of Derry township, which has its office and warehouse at Lewistown.  His 
political views are Republican.  He has always been interested in the promotion 
of local industries, and the firm of which he is a member has contributed 
liberally toward the establishment of new industries in the town.
  Albert B. Spanogle was married, May 11, 1882, to Anna, daughter of Rev. David 
W. and Priscilla (Green) Hunter, formerly of Blair county, Pa.  The only child 
of Mr. and Mrs. Spanogle is Donald B., born December 12, 1884.  Rev. Mr. Hunter 
and his wife have three children:  Anna (Mrs. Spanogle);  Edwin, of Chillicothe, 
Mo.;  and John P., M. D., of Allegheny City, Pa.  Mr. Spanogle and his family 
attend the Baptist church.