Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Henry Glitsch

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Henry Glitsch, a prominent member of the Carroll County bar, was born 
in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, on August 18, 1848, and when nine months 
of age was brought by his parents to America. They settled in 
Johnstown, Penn., where the father, Casper Glitsch, was a machinist in 
the iron-works. Casper Glitsch was born in 1821 and died in 1883. He 
was the son of Christian Glitsch, who is now living in Willmore, 
Penn., at the advanced age of ninety years. The latter is a leather 
merchant, and since coming to America has made three trips to Europe. 
The Glitsch family present a remarkable example of fine physique and 
longevity, the father of our subject being the only one of the family 
that is dead. Anne Elizabeth Glitsch, the mother of Henry, is now 
living in Johnstown, Penn., at the age of sixty-two years, she having 
been born in 1826. Her father was on the staff of Napoleon at the 
burning of Moscow, and died at the age of ninety-four years. Henry 
Glitsch was reared at Johnstown, and while a boy worked in rolling-
mills. On June 27, 1863, he enlisted in the Federal army, joining 
Company F, Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry. His first term of 
enlistment expired in six months, and he re-enlisted in January, 1864, 
at Charleston, Va., for three years or during the war. He served until 
July 30, 1865, after which he returned to Johnstown and engaged as 
heater in a rolling-mill. In September, 1868, he entered Pennsylvania 
College, at Gettysburg, and remained there till the fall of 1871. The 
next winter he taught school in Pennsylvania, and in 1872 went to 
Crawford County, Kas., and read law in the office of John T. Voss, of 
Girard, until September, 1873. He was admitted to the bar in Crawford 
County, and remained there until 1874, when he removed to Berryville, 
AR