William's History of Frederick County Rev.
Aaron Gluck
Rev. Aaron Manns Gluck, pastor of the Reformed Church of
the Incarnation, Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Md., son
of Henry and Anna Margaret (Manns) Gluck, was born in
Markes, Franklin County, Pa., June 9, 1877.
The parents of the Rev. Mr. Gluck, Henry Gluck and
Anna Margaret Manns, then unmarried, left Heibach, Hesse,
Germany for the United States in a party of three
hundred emigrants who took passage in time sailing
vessel Julies, bound for Baltimore, Md., where they
landed, November 27, 1855, after a tedious voyage of
forty-two days. After spending one night on board the
ship, they started for Chambersburg, Pa., where they
arrived in the evening of November 28.
Here they found a home with Mr. John Seibert from
whose house they were soon after married. In the
following spring, Mr. Gluck went about fifteen miles
into the northwestern part of the county and hired
himself as a farm laborer to Mr. McLowell for four
dollars a month. Two years after this, he began farming
for himself, renting one of the McDowell farms. Mr.
Gluck continued renting until he had saved enough to
purchase a home of his own. On this place, situated near Markes. Pa., his wife died, June 26, 1898. Mr. Cluck has
retired from active life and resides in Shippensburg,
Pa. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gluck, of
whom the subject of our sketch is the youngest.
Aaron Manns Gluck grew up on his father’s farm near Markes, Pa. He remained at home working with his father
and attending the village school until he reached his
seventeenth year when he entered Mercersburg Academy. He
graduated from that institution in 1896 and, in the
autumn of the same year, entered Franklin and Marshall
College, graduating in the class of 1900. After
completing a three years' course in the Theological
Seminary of the Reformed Church at Lancaster, Pa., Mr.
Gluck graduated May 14, 1903, and was received into the
ministry of the Reformed Church at Emmitsburg, Md.,
October 1, 1903. In November of the same year he was
ordained and installed as pastor of the church of the
Incarnation, Emmitsburg, Md., by a committee appointed
by the Classis of Maryland. The Rev. Mr. Gluck has
contributed many interesting articles to the periodicals
of the Reformed Church. Although he is a member of an
old Democratic family, Mr. Gluck is independent in
politics.
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