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1835 - 1913 (77 years)
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Name |
SPANG, Jacob K. |
Born |
27 Jun 1835 |
Oley Twp., PA |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
03 Jun 1913 |
Womelsdorf, PA [1] |
Buried |
Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, PA [1] |
Person ID |
I242 |
Hans Georg Spang |
Last Modified |
2 Aug 2015 |
Father |
SPANG, Jacob Seltzer, b. 13 May 1797, Oley Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania , d. 07 Jun 1862, Oley Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania (Age 65 years) |
Relationship |
Natural |
Mother |
KLINE, Deborah S., b. 22 Feb 1801, d. 11 Nov 1882 (Age 81 years) |
Relationship |
Natural |
Married |
09 Apr 1823 |
Christ Oley Lutheran Church, Oley Township, Berks County, PA [2, 3] |
Family ID |
F144 |
Group Sheet |
Family 1 |
KAUFFMAN, Sarah Ann, b. 07 Oct 1843, Pennsylvania , d. 24 Nov 1929, Pennsylvania (Age 86 years) |
Married |
24 Dec 1861 |
Berks County, PA [3] |
Children |
| 1. SPANG, Fannie Kaufman, b. 02 Nov 1863, Pennsylvania |
| 2. SPANG, Mary K., b. 04 Jan 1866, Pennsylvania , d. 20 Feb 1951, Pennsylvania (Age 85 years) |
| 3. SPANG, Samuel K., b. 14 Jan 1868, Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 24 Aug 1921, Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 53 years) |
| 4. SPANG, Alice Merkle, b. 19 Oct 1880, Pennsylvania , d. 1938 (Age 57 years) |
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Last Modified |
2 Aug 2015 |
Family ID |
F161 |
Group Sheet |
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Notes |
- Jacob K. Spang, a prominent retired citizen of Reading, was born in Oley township, Berks county, son of Jacob S. and Deborah (Kline) Spang, and a grandson of Frederick Spang, an important figure of the time of the iron boom in the early part of the eighteenth century.
Jacob S. Spang early in life took up the pursuits of his fathers, and for many years was engaged in the iron business. He also owned and operated much farming property throughout Berks county, and at one time, conducted a mercantile establishment at Spangsville, a settlement named in his honor. He died in 1862 aged sixty-four years. His wife lived to the advanced age of eighty-one years, dying in the faith of the Lutheran church, to which her husband had also belonged. He was a Whig, and at the time of the formation of the Republican party joined its ranks.
Jacob K. Spang received a common school education, and while still in his 'teens worked in his father's store and around the furnaces. In 1865 he went to Dauphin county and engaged in the manufacture of iron, later removing to Hamburg, Pa., in the same line of business, and after three years in the latter place came to Reading, becoming associated with Bushong & Co., being one of the promoters of the Keystone Furnaces, holding the responsible position of superintendent for fifteen years. He then left the firm and purchased the Maiden-creek furnace property, which he personally conducted for a number of years, after which, in 1894 he discontinued the manufacture of iron and lived retired for a few years. Mr. Spang still owns this property, a very valuable one, and has also several fine farming properties, which he rents. Mr. Spang has been a very active business man, and has done much to further the business and manufacturing interests of this section.
Mr. Spang was married in 1861 to Sarah Kauffman, daughter of Samuel Kauffman, one of the early iron manufacturers of this section. Four children have blessed this union: Fanny m. Charles Breneiser, a tobacco manufacturer; Mary; Samuel m. Miss Ella Rick, and is connected with the Colonial Trust Co.; and Alice, at home. Politically Mr. Spang is a Republican.
(Source - Montgomery, Morton "Historical and Biographical History of Berks County", 1909. as taken from the Berks County Web-Gen Project)
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Sources |
- [S558] Find A Grave.
- [S656] Reading Adler Newspaper, Reading Berks County, PA.
published 4/15/1823
- [S650] Pennsylvania Vital Records, page 39,083.
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