Record of Casper Glattfelder
Of Glattfelden, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, Immigrant 1743 — and of His Descendants, Comprising 861 Families
In 1901, a physician in St. Louis sat down and tried to find every Glattfelder descendant in America. Letters. Ship manifests. Church records. Muster rolls. The book he produced has held this family together for more than a century. It's back in print — with his 1910 supplement included.
The Foundation Stone
This book is the reason the Association exists.
Dr. Noah Miller Glatfelter, M.D. (1837–1911 and 5th generation direct descendant through Casper's son John) was a physician in St. Louis with a question that wouldn't leave him alone: where had his family come from, and where had everyone scattered to? So he started writing letters. Then he cross-referenced ship manifests, church records, tax rolls, and Revolutionary War muster lists. Years of it. The book you see on this page is what he ended up with.
"A work of this kind must be a labor of love. Financial considerations, even if ample, which is seldom the case, are no adequate recompense." — Dr. Noah M. Glatfelter, M.D., 1901
What you'll hold is a faithful reprint of Dr. Noah's 1901 edition together with his 1910 supplement. The text, the genealogical charts, the family numbering system — all of it appears as he presented it. Where he admitted uncertainty, we let the uncertainty stand. Where his spelling of the family name varied (and it varied a lot), we kept his choices. This is his work, and it deserves to speak in his voice.
What This Book Set in Motion
Dr. Noah had no idea what he was about to start.
The Record is Published
Dr. Noah's genealogy of 861 Glattfelder families appears in St. Louis — the first comprehensive record of the family in America.
The First Reunion
Cousins who'd found each other through the book gather in a grove near Bupp's Union Church in York County. The Association is born that day.
The Supplement & Incorporation
Dr. Noah's supplement adds 545 more families. The Association is incorporated — one of the earliest family organizations in the U.S.
Heimwald Park
The Association buys three acres above Casper's original homestead. "Home Woods" has been the gathering place ever since.
One Family, Many Spellings
The name on your records may not be the name that left Zürich.
Every county clerk, every census taker, every ship's officer left a mark on the family name. Dr. Noah tracked them all — and traced the family back through them. If any of these appear in your records, you're in this book somewhere.
Recognized Surname Variants
Who This Book Is For
Every Glattfelder descendant. Every serious genealogist.
- Descendants of Casper Glattfelder (b. 1709) and his five sons
- Researchers tracing York County, Pennsylvania families
- Anyone connected to the Glatfelter or Clodfelter surnames
- Genealogists building family trees pre-1900
- Historians of German-Swiss immigration to colonial America
- CGAA members and Heimwald Park reunion attendees
Own the book that started it all.
The 1901 original together with the 1910 supplement — faithfully reprinted in 2026 by the Casper Glattfelder Association of America. The foundation stone of a family that has gathered every year since 1906.
Published by the CGAA · Exclusively distributed by The Curated Quill LLC