SPANG, Charles H.

Male 1835 - 1919  (83 years)


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  • Name SPANG, Charles H. 
    Born 10 Mar 1835  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 15 Feb 1919  New York, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I231  Hans Georg Spang
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 

    Father SPANG, Charles Frederick,   b. 06 May 1809,   d. 18 Jul 1904, Nice, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother LLOYD, Sarah Ann,   b. 1817, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 1887, Nice, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Family ID F149  Group Sheet

    Family Rosalie,   b. 10 Apr 1854,   d. 22 Jun 1919  (Age 65 years) 
    Children 
     1. SPANG, Mabel,   b. 1885
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 
    Family ID F151  Group Sheet

  • Photos
    Spang, Charles H.
    Spang, Charles H.
    Postcard of the Steel Factory in Pittsburgh

  • Notes 
    • Pawtucket (RI) Times - December 1, 1904

      SPANG MARRIAGE LONG HIDDEN
      New York, Dec.1 -- In response to intimations by Henry J. Bebro that in the hearing of the habeas corpus proceedings to secure the release of Mabel Spang from Dr. George Bond's private asylum in Yonkers sensational revelations would be made in the hearing on Dec. 16, William T. Gilbert of 346 Broadway, counsel to the girl's parents, yesterday declared that Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Spang were married many years ago.
      As far as the world knew Mr. Spang, who is a member of the Union League Club and the son of a Pittsburg millionaire, married his wife, who was known as Mrs. Rosa E. Willis, five years ago.
      Mr. Gilbert said that the first marriage was kept secret in order that Mr. Spang should not be disinherited by his father, Charles F. Spang, and that when he died, Charles H. Spang was again married to his wife who had been known as Mrs. Willis.
      Mr. Bebro showed a letter written to him by Mabel Spang in which she warmly thanked him for his efforts to secure her release from the asylum where she is confined by her parents. "All I can compare you to" she says, "is a grand fairy godfather taking some poor Cinderella out of her abode of sorrow and giving her instead happiness" He also showed letters to Miss Josephine Sclam, a French teacher in the school formerly attended by Mabel Spang, tending to show confidence of Miss Spang's relatives in Miss Sclam. The friendship between Miss Sclam and Mabel Spang is the basis of the lunacy charge against the girl.
      Miss Sclam was boarding last summer at Riverhead, L.I., and about July 20 she was joined by Mabel Spang. On July 24 a dispatch came from Mrs. Spang instructing the daughter to meet her at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to say goodby before the mother sailed for Europe. Two days later the girl was confined in the private asylum under the care of Miss Grace Satymore, who is the ostensible employer of Mr. Bebro in the habeas corpus proceedings. Aug. 4, 1904 a paid personl in a morning paper said "Mrs. C. H. Spang and Miss Mabel Spang of 65 East Seventy-eighth street will sail for Europe Saturday."
      At the time Miss Spang was in the asylum. She told her story to the nurse, Miss Satymore, and together they plotted an escape.

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      OBITUARY - New York Times

      SPANG - On Feb. 15, 1919. Charles H. Spang, in his 84th year, beloved husband of Rosa E. Spang. Funeral service at Church of the Incarnation, Madison Av. and 35th St., Tuesday, February 18 at 4 p.m. Interment Pittsburg, Penn.

  • Sources 
    1. [S644] Passport Application, Roll 457 - 01 Dec 1895-31 Dec 1895.

    2. [S558] Find A Grave.