From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 335.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


WILLIAM C. SPARGO 

William C. Spargo, who has for several years been engaged in the 
retail grocery trade at Wheeling, is a native of Cornwall, England, 
the son of Thomas and Ann (Collins) Spargo, estimable people who 
passed their lives in that country.  Mr. Spargo was born July 23, 
1842, the third in a family of fourteen children, seven of whom, 
Thomas, William C., James, John, Stephen, Ann and Edwin became 
citizens of the United States.  Thomas afterward returned to England, 
then resided in Chili twenty years, and is now living in England.  
Edwin was killed by falling iron ore at Lake Superior in 1881.  Two 
other children, Richard and Christiana, are in Chili, Caroline is in 
Australia, and Thomas, Samuel and Eliza Jane are in England.  William 
C., the subject of this mention, after he was ten years of age, was 
employed as a tin dresser until twenty-two years old.  He then worked 
at mining two years, and in 1867 came to America, reaching New York 
February 28th.  He was employed for a few months each in iron mines 
near Rockaway, N. J., and at the British Bend iron mines of 
Pennsylvania, and in January, 1868, he went to Pittsburgh, whence he 
removed to Mansfield, Penn., proceeding from there to Wheeling, July 
7, 1868.  Here, for fifteen years,  he was engaged in mining, but 
formed five years before the end of that period a partnership in the 
grocery business with A. C. Harrell.  In 1883 he sold to his partner 
and established an independent business which he has since conducted 
with creditable success.  Mr. Spargo was married November 25, 1863, 
to Grace Treeweek daughter of Walter and Mary Treeweek, and they have 
had six children: William Thomas, Mary Ann, Walter Wilson, Caroline, 
Elizabeth Jones and Stephen, the latter of whom is deceased.  The 
parents and four eldest children are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and Mr. Spargo is also a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.  In politics he is a republican. 


(Linda Fluharty)