BIO:  Adam SPANGLER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 48

ADAM SPANGLER was born in York, April 12, 1839, and was the fifth of the six 
children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Frank) Spangler, of York, Penn.  Mr. Spangler 
attended the public schools of York, and also the York County Academy.  He 
learned the hatter’s trade with his father, and worked at it ten years.  He then 
began building and erecting sixty-four houses, also a large planing-mill and 
sash factory, 80 x 90 feet, well-equipped for doing all kinds of work for 
builders, and supplied with a thirty-five horse-power engine.  Mr. Spangler owns 
at present forty houses and thirty-five building lots.  He is a self-made man, 
having begun life without a dollar.  No man has done more toward improving his 
native town than our subject, and he is a descendant of one of the oldest 
families of York, about two miles from which borough his grandfather was born.  
His mother still lives at the advanced age of eighty-seven, and enjoys 
remarkably good health.  His grandfather, Frank, was a soldier in the war of 
1812.  January 26, 1859, Mr. Spangler married Jane Gipe, daughter of Phillip and 
Catherine Gipe, of York, Penn.; there have been born to them seven children:  
Susan, Elizabeth, Adam, Mary (deceased), Mary Ann, Robert and David.  Mr. 
Spangler is a member of Keystone Conclave, No. 12, I. O. H., of York.