SPANG, Julius

Male 1853 - 1950  (97 years)


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  • Name SPANG, Julius 
    Born 13 Jun 1853  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 31 Dec 1950  Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I3  Julius Spang
    Last Modified 11 Oct 2013 

    Father SPANG, Frederick,   b. Abt 1830, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother MEYER, Lena,   b. Abt 1830 
    Relationship Natural 
    Family ID F1  Group Sheet

    Family 1 WOLF, Frederica,   b. 1852, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Jan 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Children 
     1. SPANG, Lena,   b. Abt 1876, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1928, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 52 years)
     2. SPANG, Albert M.,   b. Abt 1877, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1932, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
     3. SPANG, Emil,   b. Abt 1879, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec 1961, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
     4. SPANG, Arthur E.,   b. 1881, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Apr 1956, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     5. SPANG, Lydia M.,   b. 20 Nov 1882, Middleburgh Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Apr 1962  (Age 79 years)
     6. SPANG, Henry,   b. 12 Nov 1884, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 May 1952, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     7. SPANG, William,   b. 20 Aug 1887, Brecksville, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Apr 1948, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
    Family ID F3  Group Sheet

    Family 2 DANNENMAN, Louise,   b. 1869, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Oct 1949  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 20 Feb 1924  Cleveland, Cuyahogo County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • In March, 1883, it appears that his wife and 5 children joined him from Hesse, Germany. There is a reference in "Germans to America" of a woman and 5 young children coming on the Ship Westphalia to New York on March 27, 1883. She is listed as Friedke (age 29), with Albert (7), Arthur (2), Elise (.03), Emil (4), Line (5). It is speculated that Line is Lydia or it may be Lena who shows up in the 1920 census.
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      "The J. SPANG BAKING CO., a family-owned retail bakery that operated for 70 years, was established by German immigrant Julius Spang, who learned the baking trade in Germany, where he was born in 1852. He and his family came to the U.S. in 1882, and after settling in Cleveland, Spang opened a small bake shop on Barber Ave. in 1888. The J. Spang Baking Co. was incorporated in 1909 and continued to expand its operations through the years. By 1956 the company employed 433 people and operated the main plant at 2911 Barber Ave., another plant in Lorain, and a third in Akron. After the founder's death in Dec. 1950, the Spang family maintained control of the company until it was sold to the LAUB BAKING CO. in 1958.

      Julius Spang's son, Emil, managed the Barber Ave. retail shop from 1900 to 1908 and then organized a second bakery under his own name. The Emil Spang Baking Co. was a wholesale bakery firm incorporated in 1913 and located at 1556 E. 24th St. He returned to his father's firm as a manager in 1922 but continued to operate his own bakery until 1950, when he sold it." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History" http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=JSBC

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  • Sources 
    1. [S89] Passenger List, Emigration from the Birkenfeld region, in a volume with eight tables and six maps in the text as well as three maps in the appendix. Pages 87-91 contain a list of emigrants from Germany's Birkenfeld region to America in the years 1697-1815 (Tabelle der Au Source Bibliography: MOERSDORF, ROBERT. Die Auswanderung aus dem Birkenfelder Land. (Forschungen zur Rheinischen Auswanderung, Part 1.) Bonn: Ludwig Roehrscheid Verlag, 1939, pp. 87-174. Page: 163.

    2. [S68] Find A Grave Website.