Secretary and manager of the Walnut Milling Company, Walnut, Iowa. Signed typescript written by former Civil War soldier recalling meeting Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant and Simon Cameron in Washington, DC in 1864, and regarding his memories of Lincoln's death and wake in 1865. Entitled, "My Recollection of Lincoln as a Boy - By J. C. Spangler in 1865." Typed on Walnut Milling Company letterhead.