Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; : 6y; Address:
  3218 School St.
• Occupation: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; None
• Census: 1 Jan 1920, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 15y
• Census: 1 Apr 1940, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 36y; Address:
  210 Eucolyptus
• Occupation: 1 Apr 1940, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; City Editor

Notes:

Occupation:
Industry: Newspaper
Class of worker: Wage or salary worker in private work

Died:
Published in SF Chronicle Tuesday, September 23, 1997

Raymond Spangler of Redwood City, a force in Peninsula journalism for eight decades and a former president of the Society of Professional Journalists, died Sunday at the age of 93.

Born Jan. 23, 1904, in Oakland, Mr. Spangler died in a local hospital after breaking a hip in a fall this month.

Mr. Spangler began his career at South San Francisco High, where he passed out a newspaper he wrote by hand on butcher paper. He enrolled at Stanford University in 1920 and became editor of the Stanford Daily.

During prohibition, he worked for the South San Francisco Enterprise and the South San Francisco Journal, writing stories supporting municipal reform at a time when bootleggers corrupted local politics.

In 1937, he joined the Redwood City Tribune as courthouse reporter and began writing a column, titled "Under the Courthouse Dome." He wrote some 7,000 columns over 32 years, offering background and opinions on such issues as the explosive growth during the post-World War II years.

Mr. Spangler served in the Army on the eve of World War II, helping to build Fort McQuaid near Monterey. During the war, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard Temporary Reserve.

He became editor and publisher of the Tribune in 1945. He relinquished his job as editor and remained publisher until 1968.

Mr. Spangler served on the board of directors of the Associated Press from 1951-61 and was national president of Sigma Delta Chi, now known as the Society of Professional Journalists, in 1966. He led the fight to admit women to its membership.

Throughout his career, he fought for open trials, access to public records and preservation of the First Amendment. After he retired in 1969, he was chairman of the California Freedom of Information Committee.

While retired, Mr. Spangler taught at local colleges and wrote about San Mateo County politics for three weekly newspapers until 1992.

Mr. Spangler and his wife, Nita, also fought to preserve lands around the Peninsula from development. The former Nita Reifschneider worked at the Tribune as a police reporter before the two married in 1946. The couple were to have celebrated their 51st anniversary yesterday.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Spangler is survived by his sons, Jon of Palo Alto and Thor of Albuquerque, N.M.; a daughter, Mary Spangler of Redwood City; his sisters, Edna Harks of South San Francisco and Althea Evarts of San Bruno; and five grandchildren.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. September 30 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Redwood City.

The family suggests donations to St. Peter's, 178 Clinton St., Redwood City 94061 or to the San Mateo County Historical Society, 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo 94402 for a fund to convert the old courthouse in Redwood City to a museum.

Raymond married Reifschneider, N. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mechanical Engineer, EH Edwards Wire and Rope Co.
• Census: 21 Jun 1880, Dalles, Wasco, Oregon; : 2y
• Census: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; : 32y; Address:
  3218 School St.
• Occupation: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; Draftsman
• Census: 1 Jan 1920, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 42y
• Occupation: 1 Jan 1920, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; Super
• Census: 1 Apr 1940, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 62y; Address:
  210 Eucolyptus
• Occupation: 1 Apr 1940, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; Mechanical Engineer, EH Edwards Wire and Rope Co.

Notes:

Was editor in chief of So. SF Enterprise from 1926 to 1936. Left there to work on Watsonville Pajornian, then he became publisher of Redwood City Tribune

Occupation:
General nature of industry, business or establishment: Office
Whether employer, employee, or working on own account: Wage earner

Occupation:
Industry, business or establishment: Wire-works
Employer, salary or wage worker, or working on own account: Wage earner

Occupation:
Industry: Wire Manuf.
Class of worker: Wage or salary worker in private work

Martin married Raymond, Myra on Yes, date unknown. Myra (daughter of Raymond, Perry and Dickenson, Edna) was born on 4 Nov 1880 in Oregon, USA; died on 26 Dec 1961 in San Mateo, San Mateo County, California; was buried on 28 Dec 1961 in Colma, San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; : 28y; Address:
  3218 School St.
• Occupation: 15 Apr 1910, Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California; None
• Census: 1 Jan 1920, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 39y
• Occupation: 1 Jan 1920, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; None
• Census: 1 Apr 1940, South San Francisco, San Mateo, California; : 58y; Address:
  210 Eucolyptus

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Begining: 26 Jul 1917
• Military End: 6 May 1919

Notes:

Military Begining:
US Army

Buried:
Bio from Findagrage.com: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119115376

From the Nevada State Journal, Sunday, May 4, 1975, page 7:

FROM GLASS BLOWER TO AUTO BODY REPAIR

Two Careers Enough For One Man? Now He'll Be An Author

Forty years is a long time to spend on one career. John C. "Jack" Reifschneider of Reno did just that with Jack's Auto Metal Body Shop in Reno. He opened it on North Virginia Street near the corner of 4th Street in 1929.

He retired in 1968 and his business was considered the longest lived of its kind in Reno. But Reifschneider, now 86, had an earlier career before getting into the auto reconstruction enterprise. He was a glass blower.

Reifschneider was a lad of 20 when he arrived in Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada, on a winter day in February and the temperature reading 47 degrees below zero. He spent three working seasons at the Manitoba Glass Factory.

"I was asked if I wanted to be a mold boy," Reifschneider wrote in a rough draft of a proposed book he plans on the art and history of glass blowing. He is being helped by his wife of 55 years, Olga.

"The superintendent soon learned he was talking to a union glass blower," Reifschneider continued. He said he was probably the youngest journeyman at the time.

Although having worked as a mold boy for four years, Reifschneider only served four months of a five-year apprenticeship before receiving his union card.

He'd signed as an apprentice with the American Bottle Company in his home town of Belleville, Illinois, in March of 1908, but in June of that year the company closed.

"The officials released me and a friend and gave us journeymen cards with the Green Bottle Blowers Association for $25 each," he wrote, adding, "It was up to us to prove our skill in the trade."

After working for the Illinois Glass Company in Alton, Illinois, he went to the Sydenham Glass Company, Limited, in Wallaceburg, Ontario, and then on to Beausejour in 1909 until the end of the season in June.

He said it was the custom for glass factories to close during July and August in order to make necessary repairs and changes in the tank furnaces and factories.

Upon his arrival at Beausejour, Reifschneider was told the original glass factory was operated by Polish glass blowers who used pots for mixing glass and the European method to make the free blown containers.

It wasn't long until the factory was rebuilt to cater to the American method, and American glass blowers took jobs. Reifschneider recalled the types of containers made in the Manitoba Glass Factory as being amber and green beer and soda bottles.

After he left in December of 1911, the factory was changed over to semi-automation in early 1912. The factory then produced clear flint bottles shaped like ten pins for a beverage firm, lids for Ball Brothers, clear medicine bottles and ink bottles.

In the several times the Reifschneiders have visited Beausejour since an initial journey in 1954, they have obtained from friends there several of the beer bottles made then. They include an amber bottle McDonagh & Shea, Winnipeg; green bottle E. L. Drury, Winnipeg and green bottle Pelissier and Sons, Winnipeg.

Reifschneider said the American method of glass blowing required a tank furnace constructed of fire-clay brick and fire clay, which could operate continuously for 10 months of the year, providing glass blowers, working in teams called "shops" with good quality working glass full time.

The tank furnace in the Manitoba factory was built semi-circular of fire-clay brick imported from St Louis, Missouri. A bridge of fire clay was built lengthwise in the center of the tank, in the lower center of which was an opening or throat.

The batch of raw material including mullet (scrap glass) was fed into the rear of the tank, the melted glass flowed through the throat into the front to form a pool of molten glass.

The semi-circular side in front had openings called glory holes, from which the glass blowers gathered the glass on pipes.

Efficient operation of the furnace required glass in weight (tonnage), removed by the glass blowers, be balanced with the amount in weight of batch fed into the rear of the furnace.

Tamarack wood was burned through a flue to make the gas from which flames played around and over the open furnace. Crude oil heated the double glory hole unit which was separate and used in the final operation of making bottles.

Each shop was a working unit of men and boys, working on two levels or benches with three journeymen glass blowers, one mold-boy, one glory hole boy, and one carrying in boy.

The glass blower heated the end of the blow pipe cherry red, gathered a small amount of glass on it, rolled it on the stone on the upper level, blew into the pipe to form a stem, dipped it into water to cool slightly, gathered more glass and blew again, working it on the stone.

It was then placed in a singed, two-way, air-cooled mold, which was clamped by the mold-boy on the lower level. The glass blower blew again to form the bottle to shape. The mold boy took it out of the mold and set it on a table.

The glory hole boy placed it in a clamp the size of the bottle, ground off the rough glass on the neck, and placed the bottle in the double glory hole to heat the neck cherry red.

It went to the gaffer sitting on a bench. He had a tool to finish the neck, using a mix of charcoal and powered resin. the glory-hole boy put the bottle on a paddle and carried it to a conveyor belt in the annealing oven (lehr), which was kept at 1,300 degrees.

If the heat was too hot, the bottles stuck together and were ruined. If the oven was too cold, the annealing process failed. That was how the bottles were made, according to Reifschneider.

While he has had two different careers, he also has had a lifetime hobby - photography. Reifschneider has his own pictures to peruse to remember the good old days of glass blowing, and to use in his book.

Burial:
Masonic Memorial Gardens
Reno
Washoe County
Nevada, USA
Plot: West Mausoleum (East Entrance)

John married Wuertz, Olga A on 31 Jan 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Olga (daughter of Wuertz, Henry and Fietsam, Emma) was born on 18 Mar 1901 in Illinois; died on 1 Jan 1978 in San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 21 Jun 1880, Dalles, Wasco, Oregon; : 25y
• Occupation: 21 Jun 1880, Dalles, Wasco, Oregon; Printer
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Corvallis, Benton, Oregon; : 47y
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1900, Corvallis, Benton, Oregon; Engineer

John married Luper, Jenny Lind on 23 Mar 1875. Jenny (daughter of Luper, James Martin Bernheisel and Dunbar, Frances Elizabeth) was born on 18 Dec 1856 in Albany, Linn, Oregon; died on 5 May 1908 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon; was buried on 5 May 1908 in IOOF Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton Co. Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jemima Luper
• Birth: Cal 1856, Oregon, USA
• Census: 24 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 3y; Address:
  Albany
• Census: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 13y
• Residence: 1878, West Albany, Albany, Oregon
• Census: 21 Jun 1880, Dalles, Wasco, Oregon; : 23y
• Occupation: 21 Jun 1880, Dalles, Wasco, Oregon; Keeping House
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, Corvallis, Benton, Oregon; : 43y
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1900, Corvallis, Benton, Oregon; Dress Maker

Notes:

Residence:
Tract, assigned to H. Speidel, Mrs. J. Spangler, and Luper appear on this map (See index 32, top half, 2nd page, map five)

Buried:
Plot: #135, #4
Find A Grave Memorial# 19066213

Perry married Dickenson, Edna on Yes, date unknown. Edna was born in 1849 in Illinois; died on 12 Apr 1943 in San Bruno, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Obituary from death, in Luper papers. Appears to be a San Bruno (or near-abouts) paper.

Henry married Fietsam, Emma on 21 Jan 1903 in St Clair, Illinois, USA. Emma was born on 24 Mar 1880 in Fayetteville, St. Clair County, Illinois; died on 17 Feb 1970 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]