SPANG, Jacob K.

Male 1835 - 1913  (77 years)


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  • Name SPANG, Jacob K. 
    Born 27 Jun 1835  Oley Twp., PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 03 Jun 1913  Womelsdorf, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I242  Hans Georg Spang
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 

    Father SPANG, Jacob Seltzer,   b. 13 May 1797, Oley Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Jun 1862, Oley Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Family ID F144  Group Sheet

    Family 1 KAUFFMAN, Sarah Ann,   b. 07 Oct 1843, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Nov 1929, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Married 24 Dec 1861  Berks County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. SPANG, Fannie Kaufman,   b. 02 Nov 1863, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. SPANG, Mary K.,   b. 04 Jan 1866, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Feb 1951, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     3. SPANG, Samuel K.,   b. 14 Jan 1868, Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1921, Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)
     4. SPANG, Alice Merkle,   b. 19 Oct 1880, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1938  (Age 57 years)
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 
    Family ID F161  Group Sheet

    Family 2 KAUFFMAN, Sallie 
    Children 
     1. SPANG, Alice Merkle,   b. 19 Oct 1880, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1938  (Age 57 years)
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 
    Family ID F160  Group Sheet

  • 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)

  • Sources 
    1. [S558] Find A Grave.

    2. [S656] Reading Adler Newspaper, Reading Berks County, PA.
      published 4/15/1823

    3. [S650] Pennsylvania Vital Records, page 39,083.