photo c.1906, photographer?
Glaser Family at
St. Peter Blacksmith Shop
According to Alma Osborne the Glaser family members
were as follows in the photo:
1. Unknown, 2. sister Alice holding a dog
(she became a nurse), 3. brother John,
4. unknown, 5. older lady, unknown, 6. sister Bertha, 7. lady unknown, 8.
Dr. Edward, 9. Charlie, 10. Mary (Schuck), mother, 11. John (father).
Reifel's History
published in 1915 includes
biographies on John F. Glaser p. 1000 and Edward
M. Glaser, M.D., p. 1072. John was born at St. Peters, July 10, 1859, the son of
Frederick and Catherine (Scheirger) Glaser, the former of whom was a native of
Rhinefalse, Germany, born about the year 1813; the latter a native of Wurtsburg,
Germany. Frederick came to America at the age of eleven years with his parents,
around 1824. He came to St. Peters with his parents about 1840. Regarding
Frederick, Reifel says: "So eaagerly did the people of the then scattered
farming community welcome the coming of the new blacksmith that they gathered in
a body and erected for him the log shop which still stand as the village smithy
and which is now operated by the subject of this biography, (John) who assumed
charge of the shop upon the retirement of his father, which occurred about
fourteen years before the latter's death."
John and Mary had six children as follows: Edward,
John, Mary, Bertha, Alice and Charles. Mary had died as of 1915, the year of the
History. John was a blacksmith like
his father, and a farmer. Edward Glaser was born in St. Peters, July 1, 1882.
Edward received his medical degree from Indiana University in 1907.
(Using the above, I realize that Frederick Glaser would not have been alive for the photo taken in 1906 as I had thought. In two different conversations, Alma placed John Glaser at the far right in the photo and Edward wearing a white hat and Alice holding a dog. The opening captions seem to be slightly out of order regarding the older lady.) I tend to think the order should be: 1. unknown, 2. Alice, 3. John, 4. unknown, 5 or 6. Betha, the other unknown, 7. older lady, possibly Frederick's wife and John's mother, 8. Edward, 9. Charlie (in front), 10. Mary (mother) and 11. John (father).
-submitted by Don Dunaway