Biography

11/03/1835 - 12/28/1894

Brigadier General Abraham Hiestand Glatz (D18) York 1862-1868 

Early Life: 

Brigadier General Abraham Hiestand Glantz, born November 3, 1835, Accomac, Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania; son of Doctor Jacob Glatz and Susan Hiestand; Princeton College, 1854; brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia; staff Quartermaster, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Civil War, 1861; farmer; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1857-1858; charter member, Pennsylvania German Society; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1861-1868; trustee, Millersville State Normal School, 1864-1867; Vice-President, Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, 1876; died, December 28, 1894, instantaneous paralytic stroke in bed, York, York County, Pennsylvania; interment, Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, York County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia before Civil War; enlisted, May 3, 1861, Camp Curtin, staff Quartermaster, 16th Pennsylvania Regiment, Jackson Guards, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: duty at Chambersburg; Williamsport, Maryland; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Bull Run; Bunker Hill; skirmish at Smithfield; Harpers Ferry, mustered out July 30, 1861, Harrisburg.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships: 

Trustee, Millersville State Normal School, 1864-1867; Grand Master, Mason’s Lodge; Charter member, Pennsylvania German Society: member, Mason Lodge Number 266, York. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1857-1858, not a candidate for reelection, House, 1859.  

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1862-1868; committee assignments, Agriculture and Public Manufactures, Corporations, Public Buildings, Road and Bridges Committees. 

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

Official Website - PA House Archives Official Website (state.pa.us)

Legacy:

Went by A. Hiestand Glatz, fraternal twin with his sister Margaret.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "G"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1868). Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 276, 280-282.

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Monday December 31, 1894, Page 1

The Philadelphia Times (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Tuesday January 1, 1895, Page 3. 

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