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A Collection of True Stories and Events about the Descendants of Solomon Clodfelter
by Hubert Clodfelter and Malcolm Romine
Two cousins set out in 1993 to capture the stories their family had carried for generations — pioneer life in Indiana, faith and farming, humor and hardship. The result is a faithful 2026 reprint of the 1995 original: the bear stories, the recipes, the reunions, and the people who lived them.
In 1993, two cousins sat down and did something families always mean to do but rarely manage.
Hubert Clodfelter and Malcolm Romine began collecting the stories that had been passed down for generations among the descendants of Solomon Clodfelter — stories of pioneer life in Indiana, of farming and faith, of humor and hardship, of a family that had migrated from North Carolina to Putnam County in 1830 and put down roots that would hold for nearly two centuries.
First published in 1995, Clodfelter Pioneer Days is a work of love and memory — a deliberate effort to preserve the texture of a family’s life before it passed from living memory. The compilers concentrated on the period from 1830 to 1940, capturing rural Indiana as it was actually lived: Union Chapel Methodist and Hebron Christian Church, the Morton store and Portland Mills, sports days, reunions, agricultural traditions, and the connection through the Carrington line to American Indian ancestry. Inside you’ll find the characters who made the family what it was — Uncle Wash the pioneer, Uncle Jack the innovator, Uncle Turn the merchant, Aunt Annie the homemaker — alongside photographs, family trees, and recipes handed down through generations of kitchens.
The story reaches further back than Indiana. The Clodfelters of these pages descend from Hans Peter Glattfelder of Glattfelden, Switzerland, through his son Rudolph, his grandson John (who brought the family from North Carolina to Indiana in 1830), and Solomon — whose eight children and forty-five grandchildren form the heart of the book.
This 2026 edition, published by the Casper Glattfelder Association of America and exclusively distributed by The Curated Quill LLC, is a faithful reprint of the original. The text, photographs, family trees, and recipes appear as the compilers presented them — their work, in their voices.
A keepsake for Clodfelter, Glatfelter, Gladfelter, Glotfelty, and Clotfelter descendants — and for anyone drawn to the history of pioneer Indiana.
Quality reprints of the books that tell your family's story.
The Curated Quill LLC is a specialty book distributor focused on family heritage, history, and storytelling. We partner with family associations and copyright holders to bring out-of-print genealogies, historical narratives, and family records back to life through quality reprints. Our first collection features the Glattfelder family — an American story that stretches back to 1743, when a Swiss farmer named Casper crossed the Atlantic and planted roots in Pennsylvania. The books we carry are the primary works that document eleven generations of that family's journey, written by the descendants who spent decades making sure the story wouldn't be lost. If your family has a story worth keeping in print, we'd like to help tell it.
A Foundational Record of the Swiss-American Family That Took Root in Pennsylvania and Spread Across Generations.
A landmark work of early American family history, Record of Casper Glattfelder of Glattfelden, Canton Zürich, Switzerland and of his Descendants. Immigrant, 1743 traces the descendants of Swiss immigrant Casper Glattfelder from his 1743 arrival in Pennsylvania through the generations that followed. Compiled by Dr. Noah Miller Glatfelter and first published in 1901, with a 1910 supplement, this reprint preserves the original genealogical research, family numbering system, and historical record that helped spark the founding of the Casper Glattfelder Association of America.
From Casper Glattfelder’s Arrival in 1743 Through His Six Sons and a Century of Reunions
Casper Glattfelder left Glattfelden, near Zurich, and landed at Philadelphia in August 1743. He settled in York County, Pennsylvania, raised six sons, and became the ancestor of most Americans who spell the name Glattfelder, Glatfelter, Gladfelter, Glotfelty, or Clodfelter. This volume reprints the two books that record the family: Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter’s 1993 overview of Casper and his descendants, and his 2005 history of the Casper Glattfelder Association of America across its first hundred years, 1906–2005. Both rest on wills, deeds, church registers, and Zurich emigration records — the documented account, reprinted exactly as he wrote it.