GLOSSBRENNER, Adam John, A Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Md., August 31, 1810; learned the art of printing; publisher of the Western Telegraph in Hamilton, Ohio, 1827-1828; moved to York, Pa., in 1829; established the York County Farmer in 1831; partner in the York Gazette in 1835, and continued his connection with that paper until 1860; clerk in the Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1836; staff, Office of the Clerk, United States House of Representatives, 1843-1847; staff, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1848-1849; elected, Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, 1850-1860; private secretary to President James Buchanan, 1860-1861; established The Daily Age (Philadelphia, Pa.), in 1862; resided in York, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-first Congress in 1868; engaged in banking in York, Pa., in 1872; moved to Philadelphia in 1880; employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 1880-1889; died on March 1, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.
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