BIO:  SAMUEL GLEIM, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 757-758
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    SAMUEL GLEIM, one of the representative men of South Middleton township,
  and a man who comes of an honorable and well-known family of that name, was
  born April 20, 1828, son of Samuel Gleim, who in turn was born Oct. 16, 1795.
  Samuel Gleim, Sr., was a son of Frederick Gleim, who came from Germany.
  Although a wheelwright by trade, he engaged in farming after coming to
  America, until his retirement twenty years prior to his death, which occurred
  in 1851, when he was aged eighty-four years.

    Christopher Gleim, a brother of Frederick Gleim, was the first sheriff of
  Harrisburg, Pa., and officiated at the first hanging  - a negro. After his
  term of service expired, he established a newspaper, which appeared in both
  English and German. His death occurred at St. Louis, Mo., about 1845. During
  a long and exceedingly useful life, he became a prominent politician of the
  Democratic party, and was a scholar of no mean ability.

    Samuel Gleim, Sr., was born in Lancaster county, Pa., but came to
  Cumberland county, and settled in Monroe township. He received a common
  school education, and worked upon his father's farm until he was twenty-two
  years of age. At that time, he married Annie Hoover, daughter of Michael and
  Annie Hoover, and settled on the old homestead in South Middleton township.
  Nine children were born to them: Elizabeth, deceased; Frederick, deceased;
  Michael, deceased; Samuel; Levi, deceased; John, deceased; William, living in
  Iowa, where he is a farmer; and Jacob and Annie, both deceased.

    Samuel Gleim, our subject, was reared in Cumberland county, and attended
  both the public and pay schools, at the same time assisting upon the home
  farm. He learned the trade of weaving, and worked at it for some five years,
  when he went to Ohio and there learned the carpenter's trade. Returning to
  Cumberland county, he worked as a millwright for five years, and then took up
  his trade in South Middleton township, continuing very successfully as a
  builder and contractor until his retirement in 1902.

    Mr. Gleim married and became the father of the following children: Henry W.
  married Mary Fair, and is working as a carpenter; Anna M. married William
  Hough; S. A. married Emma Rudolph, and is a carpenter; Rosealtha married
  William Meals, a farmer of South Middleton township; Jacob S. is deceased;
  Elizabeth K. married David Deitch; Emma E. is de-

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  ceased; Bertha M. is at home; Ira C. is a clerk at Mt. Holly, and is a very
  promising young man. Mr. Gleim is a very highly respected retired business
  man, and although not active in public affairs, votes the ticket of his
  party, and is interested in good government.