Source: History of Bureau County, Illinois
H.C. Bradsby, Editor
Illustrated
Chicago: World Publishing Company  1885
Reprinted by: Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA

Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin
Tampico Area Historical Society
www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com

Page 658

J. Y. SPANGLER, Greenville, was born in Muskingam County, Ohio, April 11, 1826. His father, George Spangler, was a native of Maryland, and died in Kansas, September, 1882. His wife, Catharine (Anderson) Spangler, was born in Virginia, died June 16, 1845, in Ohio. J.Y. Spangler came to Bureau County, Ill., October 11, 1847, and settle in Center Grove. In 1852 he moved to Manlius Township, where there were but very few settlers at that time. In 1876 he settled on his present farm of forty acres in Greenville Township.

Mr. Spangler was married in this county October 11, 1849, to Jane Clark. She was born in Hhio, June 27, 1830, and came to this county with her father, Thomas Clark, in 1834. Mr. and Mrs. Spangler are the parents of the following children: Theodore and Theory, born July 11, 1850 (Theodore lives in Tabor, Iowa; Theory died March 1, 1877, in Wyoming Territory); Ida May, died at the age of one year and twenty-five days; Ella, born November 19, 1858, wife of E.C. Thompson, of Marne, Cass Co., Neb.; Mary, born November 29, 1879.

Mr. Spangler is a stanch Republican, and has always taken an active part in political matters. For about twenty years he has been a delegate from his township to the County Convention. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M., No. 142, of Sheffield.