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Charles H. Glatfelter (1924-2013)

Charles H. Glatfelter (1924-2013) Obituary Charles h. Glatfelter (1924­2013) harles H. Glatfelter, former president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (1986­1988), died on February 6, 2013. He was eighty-eight years old. A lifelong Pennsylvanian, born and raised in the village of Glen Rock in York County, Glatfelter was as rooted in York and Adams county history as it is humanly possible to be. He began haunting the York County archives while still a high school student and wrote his senior thesis on a York County topic at Gettysburg College. After graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1946, Glatfelter entered the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with such notables as Sidney Painter and C. Vann Woodward. He completed his doctoral dissertation, on German Lutheran and Reformed clergy in the Pennsylvania field, under Charles Barker. At Johns Hopkins Glatfelter roomed with Henry J. Young, with whom he had become acquainted at the York County Historical Society where Young was the first director. With Henry Young he forged a lifelong friendship that pennsylvania history: a journal of mid-atlantic studies, vol. 80, no. 3, 2013. Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania Historical Association pennsylvania history carried through Young's various roles as a public historian and ultimately http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Penn State University Press

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Obituary Charles h. Glatfelter (1924­2013) harles H. Glatfelter, former president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (1986­1988), died on February 6, 2013. He was eighty-eight years old. A lifelong Pennsylvanian, born and raised in the village of Glen Rock in York County, Glatfelter was as rooted in York and Adams county history as it is humanly possible to be. He began haunting the York County archives while still a high school student and wrote his senior thesis on a York County topic at Gettysburg College. After graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1946, Glatfelter entered the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with such notables as Sidney Painter and C. Vann Woodward. He completed his doctoral dissertation, on German Lutheran and Reformed clergy in the Pennsylvania field, under Charles Barker. At Johns Hopkins Glatfelter roomed with Henry J. Young, with whom he had become acquainted at the York County Historical Society where Young was the first director. With Henry Young he forged a lifelong friendship that pennsylvania history: a journal of mid-atlantic studies, vol. 80, no. 3, 2013. Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania Historical Association pennsylvania history carried through Young's various roles as a public historian and ultimately

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Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic StudiesPenn State University Press

Published: Jul 10, 2013

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