P.C. GLASMAN, a merchant, Long Prairie, was born September 22, 1841, in Louisville, KY.
His father, Peter Glasman, was a native of Germany. He was a merchant tailor by occupation, and died in Harrison County, IN. The mother of our subject, Mary (Beam) Glasman, was born in Saxony, and died in St. Louis, MO.
Mr. Glasman went to school in Clay and Jefferson Counties, IL. At the age of ninetten, he enlisted in the Eleventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Company F., Capt. Singleton, on the 25th of July, 1861, and served till January 20, 1866; he filled the rank of Sergeant, and participated in the battles of Fredericktown, Island No. 10, Corinth and Vicksburg, and the battles of Iuka, Nashville, Tenn, and Spanish Fort.
After the war, he returned to Xenia, where he farmed one year; then removed to Jefferson County, and after three years went to Mound City, where he worked six years in the ax-handle factory, and from there went to Thebes, IL, where he worked on year in a factory, and was married there to Mrs. S.E. Brown, a native of Louisville, KY. Her maiden name was Crittendon. She was educated in St. Louis, and is now classed among Wayne County's most efficient teachers.
Mr. Glasman is an I.O.O.F., Asbury Lodge, No. 248.
From Thebes, where our subject got married, he removed to Mt. Vernon. After teaching school one year, he went to St. Louis and attended the Mound City Commercial College, where he graduated, and then kept books in the Tuscan Mills six months, and then went to Opdyke, where he clerked forJ.C. Tucker four years, and then went to Belleville, where he clerked in the railroad office six months, and then returned to Opdyke, where he clerked for Tucket and Poole till May 24, 1883, when he came to Middletown, where he now keeps a general store.
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