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 1868 - 1943 (74 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | SPANG, Henry Augustine was born 01 Aug 1868; died 12 Jun 1943; was buried St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut.. Notes:
"Grandpa Spang had his Dental Office on the first floor of 267 Orange (New Haven, CT) with the workshop behind the office where Mr. Watson worked. The living quarters were up the stairs on the upper floors (it was a narrow brownstone building). Grandpa was also very active on the New Haven Board of Education." H. Austin Spang, III.
Henry married MURRAY, Rose Mary 05 Aug 1895, St Mary's Church, New Haven, Connecticut. Rose (daughter of MURRAY, Peter and MCMAHON, Teresa Mary) was born 27 Aug 1868, Collinsville, Connecticut; died 14 Mar 1957, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; was buried St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut.. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- 2. SPANG, Virginia
 was born 13 May 1896, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 19 Sep 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- 3. SPANG, Murray Garside was born 02 Sep 1897, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died Oct 1974, East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.
- 4. SPANG, Geraldine was born Dec 1898.
- 5. SPANG, Dorothy K. was born 28 Apr 1900, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 04 Apr 1982, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- 6. SPANG, H. Austin was born 02 Jan 1903, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 05 Apr 1973, Portland, Connecticut; was buried 07 Apr 1973, St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut..
- 7. SPANG, Rosemary was born 26 Jan 1911, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 08 Feb 2000, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America; was buried 12 Feb 2000, St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut..
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Generation: 2
| 2. | SPANG, Virginia (1.Henry1) was born 13 May 1896, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 19 Sep 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |
| 3. | SPANG, Murray Garside (1.Henry1) was born 02 Sep 1897, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died Oct 1974, East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. Notes:
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Murray married GERSHEL, Ruth Esther 10 Sep 1924, East Orange, NJ. Ruth (daughter of GERSHEL, Henry and CLARKE, Anna) was born 27 Mar 1900, East Orange, NJ; died Jan 1984, East Orange, NJ. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- 8. Living
- 9. ROBERT was born 03 Sep 1928; died did not marry ; may be in Bayonne, NJ area.
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| 5. | SPANG, Dorothy K. (1.Henry1) was born 28 Apr 1900, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 04 Apr 1982, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |
| 6. | SPANG, H. Austin (1.Henry1) was born 02 Jan 1903, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 05 Apr 1973, Portland, Connecticut; was buried 07 Apr 1973, St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.. Notes:
H. Austin Spang grew up on the streets of inner New Haven, Connecticut and started delivering newspapers as an 8 year old. The second youngest of 6 children, the family moved around the time he was born from Clark Street a short distance to Elm Street. Then, between 1910 and 1920, they moved to a brownstone at 267 Orange Street. His father had his dental office on the first floor, with a workroom behind it in which Mr. Watson made dentures. The living quarters were on the second and third floor.
By 1920, Austin was working as a bank clerk. Also his grandmother was living with them and he would tell how he had to wait for her to read the sports page before he could read it and how he carried her up and down the stairs from the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Most of the children were expected to go to college and his brother, Murray, would get his BE from the Yale School of Engineering in 1919. Austin ended up going to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. While there he lettered in gymnastics. He developed a great deal of upper body strength which could be seen years later in his broad shoulders.
After graduating from college he returned to banking and, at some point, became a Bank Examiner for the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until 1943. His territory covered New England so he traveled a great deal. I can recall picking him up at the North Haven Railroad Station on Friday nights but have no memory of dropping him off.
At some point he met Mildred Virginia Cox and they eventually married on September 24, 1930. The engagement almost got called off on June 21, 1930. A tragedy occurred in which a disturbed man threw his wife and 4 children and then himself from West Rock in New Haven. His last name happened to be Spang which prompted Mildred?s father to ask if he was related to which Austin replied ?Of course, all Spangs are related.? It turns out that he was a second cousin, one-time removed.
Austin and Mildred raised their family of 4 children on Middle Road in Hamden until 1943 when he was offered a position as Vice-President with the Middletown National Bank. The family moved to High Street, next to Wesleyan University. Five years later he was made President of a small bank in Springfield, Massachusetts. This was a difficult position for him and he readily accepted a Vice-President?s position with Hartford National Bank, located in Middletown in 1953 or 1954.
Personal memories of my father are multiple. Perhaps one of the earliest is climbing on his back and being taken for a swim at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, Connecticut. If I try, I can feel the wool of his swim suit on my legs. During the summers, the 4 of us went to camp and my mother and father took a week or two vacation on Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine. My father was so pleased when they opened the Maine Turnpike to Portland in 1947 as it reduced their travel time considerably. It must have been when I was 12 or 13 that he took me to my first Red Sox game at Fenway Park. The thing that stands out about that trip is not the game itself but the drive back as it was very late. Dad chomped on an unlit cigar to keep himself awake and told me it was ok for me to sleep.
My brothers and I attended Camp Becket, a YMCA camp in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and my father would visit on Dads? weekends. I was very homesick the first year I was there and spent a great deal of my summer in the Infirmary. He would stop in to see how I was but did not stay long as he did not know what to say. Dad became very active in the Dads? Association which raised a great deal of money to buy items that did not fit the camp budget. When I was 16 or 17, they purchased a new Ford Station Wagon to take the weekly trips to Pittsfield and to run into the town of Becket. I frequently drove it and, one day, hit a patch of sand on the side of a hill and rolled the car 3 times down the hill. His was the second call I made and all he was concerned about was whether I was injured or not.
H. married COX, Mildred Virginia 24 Sep 1930, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Mildred (daughter of COX, Thomas Henry and QUIN, Adelaide Agnus) was born 23 Apr 1900, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 23 Jun 1981, Orange, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; was buried 26 Jun 1981, St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.. [Group Sheet]
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| 7. | SPANG, Rosemary (1.Henry1) was born 26 Jan 1911, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 08 Feb 2000, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America; was buried 12 Feb 2000, St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.. Notes:
Written by Rosemary Donahue about her Grandmother, Teresa Mary McMahon, at the request of her nephew, Thomas Spang (about 1995-1997)
"My Irish grandmother and Tom's father's (our mother's mother) lived with us from my babyhood until I was a sophomore in college, when she dies at ninety. She was perfectly well until a year before she dies. Spent the last year in bed and succumbed to old age. As I remember she never had any of the ailments that trouble us today.
She came to this country in a sailing vessel when she was ten years old with her parents and a brother, Michael, two years younger. They were the only passengers that didn't get seasick. All the adults were laid low. The sailors made pets of them, gave them the run of the ship, and showed them how things worked on a sailing vessel. All her life she loved the ocean, and thought Long Island Sound a sissy place to go swimming. While waiting for the boat to dock in Liverpool, she lost her little brother, but found him again in time to make the ship. Your father, Tom, was as fascinated by her stories as I was. He was crazy about her.
Her parents, Stephen McMahon and Nancy Lyddy McMahon, passed through New York (something my mother could never understand) and settled in Collinsville, Conn. I suspect they did so because they felt safer in a rural environment. The town of Ennis, County Clare, which I have visited several times, is hardly a metropolis, even today. My great grandfather, Stephen McMahon, had a job there with a utilities company (it must have been a gas co.) And Nancy Lyddy, my great grandmother, owner her own little shop on the main street of Ennis. She was accustomed to people dropping into the shop and giving her the news (and gossip no doubt) and Grandma said she was very lonely in Collinsville. I'm sure you know, Tom, your sister was named after Nancy Lyddy, and that the handsome willowware platter your sister has mounted on her living room wall was brought to this country by Nancy Lyddy, the first.
When they arrived, there was no Catholic priest in Collinsville. A priest came out from Hartford once a month to say mass in my great-grandfather's house. I now have the crucifix they used on the altar. The figure is solid brass, and the cross it hands on is solid cherry, a shame to all the cheap plastic junk they manufacture today. I understand that today Collinsville is a posh suburb of Hartford (I haven't been there since World War II). It was anything but posh when my mother was growing up there (the village where she was born). There was a "Yankee St." and a "Paddy St." and never the twain did meet. Living in such a place, my grandmother had her own kind of bigotry from across the street. The amazing thing is that this sort of thing can still flourish in northern Ireland. It's so true that human beings never learn from history.
I think but am not sure that the Collins factory manufactured weapons for the Union army during the Civil War. I know they were still at it in World War II. I hope by then their employees were unionized but I doubt it. My grandfather, Peter Murray, whom grandma married at 19, died young from occupational tuberculosis from working in what, in those days, was probably considered a model factory. I never knew him, nor my two Spang grandparents, they all had died before I was born.
My only grandmother lived a rural village life, the kind you read about in novels of the period, before I knew her. She never went to school. There was no convent school and, because she was a girl her father wouldn't send her to the village school. He had a fairly decent education himself and taught her at home. She had a fairly thorough knowledge of history, American and Irish, and quite a sound theology for the time - much better than those went to parochial school in the 19th century. She was always very well informed on current events as she the newspaper from cover to cover. (Your father used to say, Tom, he only wished she didn't have the sports page in her room when he wanted to read it)."
Rosemary — DONAHUE, Charles. Charles (son of DONAHUE, Charles J. and HUGO, Mary Theresa) was born 26 Dec 1980; died Sep 1979, Eastchester, Westchester, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 3
| 9. | ROBERT (3.Murray2, 1.Henry1) was born 03 Sep 1928; died did not marry ; may be in Bayonne, NJ area. |
| 15. | SPANG, David Barr (6.H.2, 1.Henry1) was born 12 Aug 1936, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died 2 Feb 2016, Bangor, Maine, USA. David married HINSHAW, Carla Kay 11 Feb 1961, Nyack, NY. Carla (daughter of HINSHAW, Carl and GIVENS, Audrey Elizabeth) was born 10 Nov 1937, New Castle, Henry, Indiana, USA; died 29 Mar 2015, Bangor, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 4
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