1. Edman "Ned" Spangler, baptized Edmund Spangler, was an American carpenter and stagehand who was employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's murder on April 14,1865.
22 Facts About Edmund Spangler
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Edmund Spangler was born in York, Pennsylvania, one of four sons of William Edmund Spangler, a county sheriff.
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Edmund Spangler was baptized as "Edmund Spangler" at the First Reformed Church in York on August 10,1825.
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Edmund Spangler eventually moved to Maryland and began working with another carpenter, James Johnson Gifford.
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In 1853, Edmund Spangler moved to Baltimore where he worked as an assistant to Gifford at the Front Street and Holliday Street Theaters.
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In 1861, the couple relocated to Washington, DC, where Edmund Spangler began working as a carpenter and scene shifter at Ford's Theatre.
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Edmund Spangler was dazzled by Booth's fame and charm and, despite the fact that Booth was thirteen years Edmund Spangler's junior, was always eager to complete whatever tasks Booth assigned him.
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Edmund Spangler would often butt heads with co-worker Jake Rittersbach who was a veteran of the Union Army.
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Edmund Spangler helped bring in furniture and remove the partition which converted the two boxes, numbers 7 and 8, into a single box.
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Edmund Spangler dismounted in the alley to the rear of Ford's and asked for Spangler.
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When Spangler came out, Booth asked him to hold the mare he was riding, which he had hired from the stables of James W Pumphrey.
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Edmund Spangler explained he had work to do and asked Joseph Burroughs, another Ford's employee, to do so.
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Edmund Spangler was accused of aiding and assisting Booth into the President's box and then barring the door outside the box to prevent any help for Lincoln and then helping Booth escape.
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Edmund Spangler was one of the three who the majority of the commissioners believed was not guilty.
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Dr Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen were sentenced to life in prison while Edmund Spangler was sentenced to only six years.
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Edmund Spangler built coffins for the thirty-seven prisoners and guards who eventually succumbed to the disease.
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In February 1875, Edmund Spangler became ill with a respiratory ailment, likely tuberculosis, after working in a winter rainstorm.
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Edmund Spangler was buried in a graveyard connected with St Peter's Church which was about two miles from Dr Mudd's home in Charles County, Maryland.
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Edmund Spangler had a stable in the rear of the theater where he kept his horses.
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Edmund Spangler had two horses at the stable, only a short time.
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Edmund Spangler replied that he must then try and have them sold at private sale, and asked me if I would help him.
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Edmund Spangler came, and took the horse, and I went back to my proper place.