ID: I08693
Name: Charles Mahlon Spare
Sex: M
Birth: 29 AUG 1849 in near Trappe, Pennsylvania
Death: 6 JAN 1918 in Norristown, Pennsylvania at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred L. Stauffer, 832 DeKalb Street.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Norristown, Pennsylvania
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Note: As he was only 5 years old when his father was killed, he spent his boyhood years on the farm of his uncle, Charles Beaver, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. At the time of the Civil War, in 1864, when he was only 15 years old, he volunteered for army service, and enlisted as a private in Company N, 192d Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He participated in several engagements, and was honorably discharged from the army. Subsequently he was a loyal member of Post 2, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, serving as commander of the Post. After the war he attended Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, under the principalship of the late Dr. A. H. Fetterolf. He was an apt student, and following graduation he taught in the public schools of Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. After being connected with the wholesale grocery business of Henry C. Kellogg Company, about 1847, he became station agent of the Perkiomen Railroad Company at Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. In this capacity his efficiency was soon recognized by the officials of the Reading Railroad Company, whom he served faithfully for more than forty-four years, first as freight solicitor in New York, and later in the freight department in Philadelphia. On account of ill health he was relieved three years before his death and placed on the retired list. For nearly forty-seven years he was a member of Warren Lodge, No. 310, Free and Accepted Masons, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, serving as master of the Lodge in 1876. He was chosen the first president of the Spare Family Reunion, and he took great interest in the family and its history. He was a member of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and later of Oxford Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. His life was marked by his devotion to his family and friends, and by his quiet, unobtrusive helpfulness in the church, the Grand Army and wherever good could be done.
Father: Mahlon Spare b: 25 JAN 1822
Mother: Rebecca Sassaman b: ABT 1830
Marriage 1
Kate Augusta Strassburger b: 18 JAN 1854 in Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Married:
10 SEP 1878
in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Children
 Charles Roscoe Spare b: 14 JUN 1879 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania Reuben Young Spare b: 29 JUN 1882 in Geneva, New York
Sources:
- Title: SPARE Family, The: Leonard Spare and His Descendants
Author: Spare Family Association, The
Publication: Norristown, PA: The Spare Family Association, publisher and The Norristown Press, printer, 1931.
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Media: Book
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