William Alexander Sponsler and Elizabeth F. Burkholder

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Husband William Alexander Sponsler ¹

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           Born: 28 Jan 1827 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: William B. Sponsler (1790-1875) 1
         Mother: Ann Beelman (      -1856) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Sep 1851 1

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Wife Elizabeth F. Burkholder ¹

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         Father: Henry L. Burkholder (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M William Henry Sponsler ^{1 2 3}

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         Spouse: Rebecca Whitehill Orr (1855-      ) 1 2 3
           Marr: 8 Nov 1876 3

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2 F Annie V. Sponsler ¹

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         Spouse: Charles H. Bergner (      -      ) 1

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3 M Edward R. Sponsler ¹

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         Spouse: Mary Hackett (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Alexander Sponsler

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He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and when but a lad of six years removed, with his parents, to New Bloomfield, Perry County. He was educated at the New Bloomfield Academy, and, deciding upon a professional career, entered the law-office of Benjamin McIntire, where he concluded his studies, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1848. He began the practice of his profession in New Bloomfield and speedily obtained a leading place among the successful attorneys of the county in which he has since resided. He was engaged in many of the important cases, both civil and criminal, in Perry County, and frequently appeared in the courts of adjacent counties, as also in neighboring states, his ability, technical knowledge of the law and application having rendered his practice in a marked degree successful. Mr. Sponsler is also engaged in active business as partner in the banking house of Sponsler & Junkin, of New Bloomfield. His services have been frequently sought as guardian, executor, administrator and in other offices where sound judgment, not less than fidelity to important trusts, are indispensable. He was connected with the Masonic fraternity as member of Adams Lodge, No. 319, of New Bloomfield. In his political predilections he was first a Whig, and later affiliated with the Republican party. Though not an active worker in the arena of politics, he filled such municipal offices as chief burgess, school director, etc.; was, in 1872, nominated for Congressional honors in a district largely Democratic, which ensured his defeat. His religious sympathies were with the Presbyterian Church, in which he was for years an elder.

1 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 910.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 153.

3 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 24.