When Barr Spangler was born in Marietta, James Monroe was president, canal boats were transforming commerce, and the railroad had yet to reach Lancaster County.
By the time he died 100 years later, automobiles traveled the roads, airplanes crossed the skies, and Warren G. Harding occupied the White House.
Yet Spangler barely left the Susquehanna River town he called home.
Over the course of a remarkable century, he became a merchant, banker, hor…
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