BIO:  Jacob R. SPANGLER, M. D., 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 49

JACOB R. SPANGLER, M.D., is a son of Rudolph and Sarah (Harbaugh) Spangler, was 
born in Jackson Township, November 22, 1850, and is of German origin.  The 
father of Mr. Spangler was a native of the same county, born in 1800, and died 
in 1851.  Our subject worked on the farm during the summer and attended the 
public schools during the winter.  In 1867 he entered the Millersville Normal 
School, and subsequently the York County Academy.  In the fall of 1871, Mr. 
Spangler began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. B. F. Spangler, in 
York, and afterward entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from 
which he graduated March 11, 1874, and immediately began the regular practice of 
his profession in York, where he has since continued.  He is a thorough 
Republican and manifests much interest in politics.  During the year 1880 he was 
the health officer of York.  He is a man of much public spirit and a most 
successful physician.