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 for
J.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.