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WILLIAM SPROAL, teamster, post office McKee’s Rocks, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 28, 1840, a son of Joseph and Margaret Sproal, former of whom came from Ireland in 1820, at the age of fourteen years; was a boatman, and followed the river all his life; he married, for his second wife, Margaret Getty, by whom he had fifteen children, two of whom are living: William and Isabella (wife of D. F. Graham, of Allegheny City). The father died in 1886, at the age of eighty years; his widow still resides in Allegheny City, at the age of seventy-two years. William Sproal was reared to river life, which he followed continuously (except while serving as teamster in the army during the civil war) until 1882, since when he has followed teaming. He married, in 1862, Amanda, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Woods, of this county, and the names and dates of birth of their children are: Joseph (1863), Margaret (1865), Annie (1869), George W. (1867, deceased), Isabella (1871, deceased), Mary (1877, deceased), Kate (1879, deceased), Thomas (1874), Lewella (1881), Bertha (1883) and William John (1888). Mr. Sproal is a member of the K. of P., the A. O. U. W. and the Heptasophs. He is a director in the McKee’s Rocks Loan and Building association, and owns a good house and twelve town lots.