BIO:  Lewis K. Glatfelter, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Codorus Township, Pg 93

LEWIS K. GLATFELTER, son of Charles and Leah (Klindinst) Glatfelter, is the third 
child in a family of eleven children, and was born October 20, 1843, in North 
Codorus Township, where he was reared on his father’s farm; when a boy, his time 
was devoted to school and farm work.  February 15, 1863, he married Isabella, 
daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Behler) Kerchner, of North Codorus Township.  
This marriage has been blessed with seven children:  Franklin (deceased), Emma 
J., Lucy, Alice (deceased), Miranda (deceased), Paul (deceased) and Rose 
(deceased).  Our subject’s father, Charles Glatfelter, died in his sixty-fifty 
year, and his mother was sixty-seven when she died.  Mr. Glatfelter owns an 
excellent farm of 100 acres, well stocked and under good cultivation; also owns 
an adjoining farm of sixty acres that he farms in connection with the home farm.  
The Glatfelter family is one of the oldest and most numerous in York County.  The 
subject of this sketch is a man of wide influence in his township, and a 
prominent member of Shaffer’s Church.