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From Casper Glattfelder’s Arrival in 1743 Through His Six Sons and a Century of Reunions
by Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter PhD
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.
In August 1743, a Swiss farmer named Casper Glattfelder stepped off a ship at Philadelphia. He had left Glattfelden, a town about twelve miles north of Zurich where his family had lived for generations. He settled along the south branch of the Codorus Creek in York County, Pennsylvania, raised six sons, and died in 1775. Most people in America who spell their name Glattfelder, Glatfelter, Gladfelter, Glotfelty, Clatfelter, or Clodfelter descend from him.
This volume brings together the two books that record where the family came from and what it built.
The first, The Early Glattfelder Family in America: An Overview (1993), follows Casper from Glattfelden to Philadelphia and through his six sons, from whom the American branches descend. It covers his estate, the Pennsylvania homesteads, the village that took the family name, and the sources behind the record.
The second, The Casper Glattfelder Association of America: The First Hundred Years, 1906–2005, is the family’s account of itself: the first reunion in 1906, incorporation in 1910, the purchase of Heimwald Park overlooking Casper’s original homestead, and a full century of gatherings — including the years the reunions stopped for the Second World War and the 1976 tornado that struck York County.
Both books were written by Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter (1924–2013), the association’s historian for more than sixty years and Professor Emeritus of History at Gettysburg College. He worked from wills, deeds, estate inventories, militia rosters, church registers, and the emigration records of the canton of Zurich, and kept every spelling as he found it. The books rest on documents rather than family memory, which is why they have held up.
Out of print for most of the last twenty years, both are reprinted here as Dr. Glatfelter wrote them — nothing corrected, nothing added. If you carry one of the family’s names, this is the founding record of where it came from.
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.
A Collection of True Stories and Events about the Descendants of Solomon Clodfelter
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.