BIO:  Levi M. 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, Warrington Township, Pg 197

LEVI M. SPANGLER was born in Warrington Township May 19, 1825, and is one of the ten children 
born to John and Susanna (Maish) Spangler, as follows:  Harriet Shelley (deceased), Mary 
Cammon, Levi M., David (deceased), Sarah (deceased), Daniel (late captain in the army and 
afterward in the navy, and now deceased), Lavinia Gochenauer, David, Susanna and Eliza A.  
Subject’s grandfather, Joseph Spangler, was one of six brothers, who came from Germany, and 
from whom the Spanglers of this country sprang.  John Spangler was born February 2, 1789; was 
the possessor of 130 acres of land on the Conewago; sixty acres in Cumberland County, and also 
twenty acres of additional woodland; he served in the war of 1812, and died in 1850, a member 
of the Lutheran Church.  Our subject was reared a farmer, was educated at the public schools 
and at the York County Academy, and subsequently taught six terms of school.  In 1848-49 he 
attended the Dickinson College at Carlisle, and the following winter again taught school.  He 
took charge of the home farm at his father’s death; subsequently he bought the place, and there 
he still resides.  December 24, 1850, he married Margaret J., daughter of Samuel Smith, and to 
this union have been born four children:  Emily J. Miller, Amanda E. (deceased), Emerson and 
Albert.  Mr. and Mrs. Spangler are members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. S. also takes an 
active part in Sunday-school work.  He has served as school director of Warrington Township 
eight year, and once had the nomination by the Republicans for county auditor.