BIO: George W. GLACE, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  GEORGE W. GLACE, one of the representative farmers and self-made men 
of Potter township, Centre county, began life for himself at an early 
age without means, and by the exercise of his resolute will and 
persevering industry has succeeded in obtaining a comfortable 
competency.  His straightforward methods of doing business, and his 
value as a member of the community, have gained him a wide circle of 
friends and acquaintances, who have watched his career with interest, 
and are not slow to acknowledge that he is deserving of all the good 
that has fallen to him.
  Mr. Glace was born September 3, 1850, in Snyder county, Penn., a son 
of Abel and Elizabeth (Michael) Glace, farming people of that county.  
When three years of age the father died, leaving to the care of the 
mother the following children: John W., now a resident of Cataract, 
Clearfield Co., Penn.; Rebecca J.; Samuel, of Oriental, Juniata Co., 
Penn.; George W.; and Sarah, wife of Charles Stroup, of Coudersport, 
Penn.  The father's death occurred at Mahantango, this State.  Later 
the mother wedded William Kane, by whom she had one daughter, Mary, 
wife of Charles Baumgartner, of Clearfield county.  Mrs. Kane departed 
this life in that county at the age of seventy-one years.
  The limited education which our subject received was obtained in the 
public schools of Snyder county, but at the age of eleven years he left 
the farm and began earning his own livelihood by driving a mule team on 
the tow-path.  When

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sixteen he left his native county, being then able to do a man's work, 
and obtained employment in the lumber woods of Clearfield and adjoining 
counties.  For fifteen years he continued to follow the lumber 
business, during which time he worked in all its various branches.  On 
attaining his majority he married Miss Anna Confer, who was born in 
Pottersdale, Clearfield county, in 1855, and was a daughter of John 
Confer, a farmer by occupation.  They went to housekeeping in the place 
of her birth, where they made their home while he was at work in the 
woods.  In 1884 he erected a hotel at Cataract, Clearfield county, 
known as the "Cataract House," which was the first hotel in the town, 
and which he successfully conducted until the spring of 1896, when he 
came to Potter township.  Here he purchased the John Sankey farm, a 
tract of seventy-five acres, which he is now operating with skill and 
ability.
  Mr. Glace has been called upon to mourn the loss of his faithful 
wife, who died December 29, 1895, and was laid to rest in Oak Hill 
cemetery in Clearfield county.  Eight children were born to them, 
namely: Tacy E., now the wife of James Good, of Clearfield county; and 
John M., Maude M., Lulu B., George W., Alice P., Bessie J. and Ceylon 
W., all with their father.  Mr. Glace has encountered many obstacles 
all through the highway of life, but has overcome them and steadily 
pushed his way forward until he now has a comfortable home and fine 
farm.  Politically he is a Democrat, and while a resident of Clearfield 
county served his fellow citizens in the capacity of supervisor and tax 
collector.