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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JAMES K. SPANGLER, J. P., McKeesport, was born in Somerset county, Pa., December 4, 1844, a son of Lewis and Mary (Shank) Spangler, and is of English and German extraction. His grandfather, Maj. Stoy, a pioneer of Somerset county, Pa., and the founder of Stoystown, was a celebrated Indian fighter, and participated in the war of 1812. James K. Spangler was reared in his native county, and was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting September 18, 1861, for three years, in Company B, 54th P. V.; was captured three times, and retained two months in Libby prison as a hostage. He re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, was a prisoner of Gen. Lee at the time of his surrender, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1865. He then located in McKeesport, where he worked as spannerman and heater in Wood’s rolling-mill (Russian department), graduated from Mount Union College, Ohio, June, 1870, and for eight years thereafter taught music. He was elected justice of the peace in 1884. He is a member of the Second Methodist Episcopal Church, and leader of the choir; is a member of the G. A. R., Royal Templars of Temperance and K. of P.; politically he is an advocate of prohibition.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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