Samuel F. Glatfelter

Background

Glatfelter, Samuel F. was born on April 7, 1858 in York Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaac K. and Sarah (Feiser) Glatfelter.

Education

Descendant Casper Glatfelter, 1743. Preparatory education, York County Academy. Student Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Career

He was engaged in teaching for several years, and later became a building contractor and also interested in banking. Glatfelter was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, But was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He resumed his business as a building contractor, and died in York, Pennsylvania, aged 69.

Interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

Cause of death according to the coroner"s records was carcinoma of the intestines. Various properties and lots of land he owned at the time of his death were sold or auctioned off on September 22, 1927.

Achievements

• Samuel F. Glatfelter has been listed as a noteworthy congressman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member 68th Congress (1923-1925), 22d Pennsylvania District.

Connections

Married Ida Gilbert, 1880.

Father:

Isaac K. Glatfelter

Mother:

Sarah (Feiser) Glatfelter

Spouse:

Ida Gilbert