Husband Samuel Gramly 1
AKA: Samuel Gramley 2
Born: 4 Mar 1827 - Rebersburg, Centre Co, PA 3
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Died: Aft 1898
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Father: Philip Gramley (1798-1869) 2 4
Mother: Barbara Poorman (1800-1845) 5
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Other Spouse: Sarah J. Smull (1832-1880) 6 - 7 Aug 1849 - Aaronsburg, Haines Twp, Centre Co, PA 7
Wife Catherine A. Spangler 7
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Father: Daniel Spangler ( - ) 7
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Other Spouse: William Ocker ( - ) 7
Children
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Gramly
He attended the district schools in Rebersburg, PA, for a time in his youth, and completed his course of study at Mifflinburg Academy, afterward entering into business as a teacher, surveyor and farmer. As county commissioner, and justice of the peace for many years, he demonstrated his capacity for public affairs, while his popularity is shown by his election to these positions in the face of an adverse partisan majority. In religious faith he was a Lutheran.
Until he attained his majority his time was mainly spent in clearing land, that work being deemed of prime importance and schooling a secondary matter. He attended the local school for a few months one winter before he was ten years old, and learned rapidly, but his desire to continue was not often gratified later. He delighted in mathematics, solving examples which none of his schoolmates could understand. He excelled in penmanship also. The changes which brought educational privileges within reach of all in the present day met with his entire approval, and he did all in his power to further them. In the summer of 1848 he taught a subscription school, and then attended Mifflinburg Academy for eighteen weeks, preparing for better work in his chosen profession. His next school was in his home district, where many of his former mates were pupils. The first blackboard ever placed in a school in Miles township, Centre County, was secured through his efforts for the benefit of his scholars. In the spring of 1849 he spent another term of ten weeks at the academy in Mifflinburg, and during the winter term of 1849-50 he taught in the home school. From this time on he taught regularly till the spring of 1861, when he removed to a farm of his father's, and while cultivating that in summer continued his former work in winter till the spring of 1870. In the meantime he mastered surveying by private study, and when competent found plenty of work to do in that line. He bought the farm on which he lived, and in 1875 purchased another home with a small piece of land in Rockville, Centre County, where he resided until 1892, when he removed to a home in Rebersburg. He continued to own the two properties near that town, and was accounted one of the substantial men of the locality. For twenty-five years he represented the Centre Hall Mutual Insurance Co. at that place.
In his political views he was a pronounced Republican, although he was a Democrat until Lincoln's first term. In 1870 he was chosen county commissioner of Centre County, and served nearly three years; in 1869 he was elected justice of the peace, which office he held for fifteen years, despite the fact that his township was the most strongly Democratic of any in the county. Early in life he united with the Lutheran Church, for forty years was secretary of the society, and later an elder. He was always active in the Sunday-school, in which he held the office of superintendent thirty-four years. [CBRCP: CCJC, 369]