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 of the 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;  en route to Bull Run; Bunker Hill; skirmish at Smithfield; Harpers Ferry, and 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; member, Agriculture and Public Manufactures, Corporations, Public Buildings and Road and Bridges Committees.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=8184&body=H

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

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1868) Smull, J.A., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 275 and 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 

         (i) http://www.numismaticmall.com/numismaticmall-com/glatz-abraham-heistand