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She Centre JPrraon^t.Thuradij Morning, Dtoember 15, 1881.•4 rroio any |mrt of ih» mmi;, No cn.amnlo • *. u-lo—r(«i uuImi •ccoDii»al*4 by ch. rr.1 i,.m. of lt;h. wHUr.Local Department.— Buy your blanket* at Loebt. —Holiday Gooda at Zellers Drug Store0IOOKAPHICAL Sketcbbb.—We con-tlnue tbU week a few selections from Prof. Meyer'a biographical sketches of the firstacttlera of Brush valley. Everything that relatea to the pioneer* of the county ia Interesting, and *• we glance through the aketrhea of our friend the recollection of more than one old patriarch, of whose peraonal trails and charactnrs we had learned jearssgo, wan revived in our minds* Aa a rule they were energetic, peraeverlng, prudent, honest and God-fearing men, and hey left a strong impression upon the ettlenionl* that grew from tho beginning rhk’h they made :CiminToriiKR SrAKui.cn camo origi-tally from More township, Northampton ounly. lie owned a farm eaal of New lerlin, Union county, and lived on it hree years; thence he removed to Brush alley in 1704 or 1703, and located on the •lace now owned by hia son Jonathan Ipangler. He bought a Mr. George Hoer* ner’a Interest in a leaao for bis tract and eceived his deed frotn Miles for it in 1708, rhich ahowed that it waa leased in 1701. )lher parcels were purchased subsequently lia father-in-law, John Kryder, lived on ho adjoining farm—now John Kreamer'a nd had corno into the the valley several ’ears before, probably in 1702. Mr. ipangler built the stone bouse on the place vblch to day is still a substantial building.The subject of this sketch, Mr. Spang-er, was a man of strong convictions, noral, religmua and political, and fearless-y carried them out, caring little for pnpu-ar opinion. The Sabhalh-breaker and he tippler slunk away at his approach; he swearer and brawling bully subsided nto silence as he passed ; all evil-d«*ert Ireaded his reproof. He was an intelligent man and a friend of education, taking i very decided stand in favor of the com-non school system when that question was ubmillcd to a vote of the people. Mr. pengler belonged to the Lutheran church mill about the year 1800, when he became i member of ibe Evangelical association. •Soe churches.) There are a number of loscendants in Miles and Potter townsbipa, ntre county, and many in the west. Children there were nine; Samuel and facob, who resided in Potter township, otb deceased ; Jonathan, who lives at the ld homestead,—to bins the writer is In* lebi»*d for much Information on various lubjects in this sketch ; Anna Maria, who *as married to Conrad Liare; Susan, who vas married to Solomon Gerheart; Mag-Ulena, who was married to Jacob Wcise ;Jhrlstina, who was the wife of Mr.--Evans ; Esther, who was married to John Setts, and Rebecca, who was married to facob Kreamer. Mr. 8pangler was born day 17, 1706, died Feb 21, 1865, and is uried in the Lutheran and Reformed graveyard at Reber«burg.Sometime after Christopher Spangler noved into the valley, his father George Jbristopher Spangler, original y from Prussia, came also and occupied the place l-w owned by Jacob Shultz. Here he lied in 1802. Three of his ether sons ame about the same time, probably with tim. They were Henry, who become a •ioneer settler of Sugar valley near where Tylersville is now situated ; Georgs, who rent to Ohio ; Peter, who removed to laid Eagle valley somewhere aboulagle-ille, thence to Ohio; another son, J«dn, sttled along the Sinnamabontng.Pai l Wolf purchased in 1811 frotn *obias Pickle the mill property and large rart of land Ivincr north iprnM it.n n11.«
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Bellefonte Centre Democrat
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1881
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