BIO: Christian R. Gladfelter, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER L. 

                           MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. 

499  MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP.

  CHRISTIAN R. GLADFELTER, miller, was born in York County in 1838.  He 
moved first to Silver Spring Township, this county, and later to 
Middlesex Township, and when a boy attended the schools of the time.  
He afterward followed farming until three years ago, when his father, 
Moses, purchased the grist-mill at the confluence of the Letort and 
Conodoguinet Creeks.  Moses Gladfelter is descended from men of 
revolutionary fame.  Three brothers came from Germany, two of whom 
served in the Revolutionary war.  Moses is the son of George, and 
married Miss Ruhl, of Cumberland County.  To them two sons and one 
daughter were born, of whom Christian is the eldest.  The mill which 
Christian now operates is of historic interest.  In 1756 it was 
conveyed by John Chambers to his sons, Randle and William.  Just prior 
to the Revolution it was sold to Robert Callender, an Indian trader, 
and a man of education and influence in those times.  In 1792 it passed 
into the hands of Ephraim Blaine, grandfather of Hon. James G. Blaine, 
of Maine, from whom it has descended down, through various parties and 
by various conveyances, to the present owners, who have remodeled and 
greatly enlarged it, so that it is now one of the largest and most 
successful roller-mills in the county.  Mr. Gladfelter also purchased 
the handsome residence adjoining.