BIO: Lemuel R. Spong, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

396  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  LEMUEL R. SPONG, register of wills, Carlisle, was born on a farm in 
East Pennsborough Township, Cumberland County, Penn., May 21, 1855, a 
son of Joseph and Caroline (Marsh) Spong, the former a native of the 
same county and township and the latter of York County.  Joseph Spong 
was a son of John Spong, also a native of East Pennsborough Township, 
and his (John's) father, John Leonard Spong, a native of Germany, who 
was married there, immigrated to America, and settled in East 
Pennsborough Township, this county.  John Spong, father of Joseph 
Spong, married Barbara Dewerton, of Dauphin County, Penn., and had ten 
children.  To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spong were born four children, all of 
whom are dead except Lemuel R.  When our subject was six years of age 
his father moved to West Fairview, Cumberland County, where Lemuel 
attended school until he was thirteen years old, when he went to work 
for the Harrisburg nail-works, with which he remained in the capacities 
of office boy, clerk and shipping clerk until 1873, when, in connection 
with the position he was holding, he acted as agent for the Adams 
Express Company, and later became freight agent for the Northern 
Central Railroad.  From 1874 until 1885, during the fall and winter 
seasons, he was engaged in buying and shipping all kinds of produce.  
October 24, 1875, Mr. Spong was married to Miss Rosa Mann, a native of 
East Pennsborough Township, this county, and a daughter of George and 
Mary A. (Eslinger) Mann, both of this county.