Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Glunt, Jonathon A. July 6, 1829 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JONATHAN GLUNT, 
senior partner in the well-known firm of Glunt & Crum, at Altoona, and an
extensive owner of coal and timberlands in this State, may be ranked among
the most enterprising, successful and highly esteemed citizens of the
county.  He is the eldest son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Long) Glunt, and was
born in Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1829.  The
Glunts are of German descent, but the family has been resident of the
adjoining commonwealth of Maryland for many generations, and has been
distinguished by all the sturdy virtues of their thrifty race.  Adam Glunt
(grandfather) was a native of Maryland, but removed to Pennsylvania in 1803,
locating in what is now Greenfield Township, this county.  He was a farmer,
and followed that occupation until his death.  He married, and reared a large
family.  Among his sons was Abraham (father), who was born in Maryland in
1796, but was brought to this State by his father when only seven years of
age.  After attaining manhood he worked as a laborer and contractor, and was
remarkable for his vigorous constitution and great strength.  He was a
democrat in politics, and on the breaking out of the civil war, although then
in his sixty-fifth year, he enlisted in the 84th Pennsylvania infantry,
passing as a man of forty-five.  In the summer of 1862 he was attacked by a
disease in the army, and securing a furlough, came back and died in six
weeks, at his home in Logan township, this county, aged sixty-six years.  By
his marriage to Elizabeth Long he had a family of twelve children, nine sons
and three daughters.  The daughters all died years ago, but eight of the nine
sons are yet living.  Mrs. Glunt was born in what is now Blair county in 1807,
and now resides in Fairview, in Logan township, being in her eighty-fifth
year, and very active for a woman of her age.  She is a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, and has been connected with that denomination
for a period of fifty years.  
      Jonathan Glunt was reared on the farm in Allegheny Township, this
county, and his education was obtained in the common schools of that day and
neighborhood.  Soon after leaving school he engaged in the lumber and saw
mill business in Cambria county, and this has been his principal business
ever since.  In 1859 he removed to the city of Altoona, where he has
continued to reside until the present time, though he retained and managed
his large lumber interests in Cambria County until 1889.  In 1883, in company
with Louis Plack and A.J. Crum, he erected the extensive planning mill and
lumber-working establishment known as the Union Planing mill, located on
Ninth Avenue and Eighth Street, and still retains his interest in this
enterprise, the style of the firm now being Glunt & Crum.  Mr. Glunt is also
extensively interested in coal and timber lands in Somerset, Cambria, and
Bedford counties, beside owning considerable real estate in the city of
Altoona, and ten acres of valuable land where he resides just outside the
city limits.  His present prosperous and independent condition is the result
of hard work, backed up by the great energy and ability which was his chief
inheritance.  For Mr. Glunt began life as a poor boy, and his successful
business career shows what may be accomplished by the young man who marks out
a course in life, and allows nothing to divert him from it at any time.
      On December 14, 1858, Mr. Glunt was married to Rachel Miller, a
daughter of Peter Miller, of the township of Logan, this county.  This union
was blessed by the birth of eight children, three sons and five daughters:
Alice V., who married Whitman Newcomb, and now resides in Logan township;
Mary B., the wife of Blair Commesser, who resides at Bellwood, this county;
Peter W., married Mamie C. Dunn, of Cambria county and Edith, Frank B.,
William R., Minda G., and Carrie R., living at home with their parents.  Mrs.
Glunt is an earnest, intelligent, and capable woman, and to her wise counsels
and unfailing courage and enthusiasm Mr. Glunt attributes much of his success
in life.
      Politically Mr. Glunt is an ardent republican and an active worker for
the success of his party.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of
Altoona Lodge, No. 472, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He is a pleasant,
genial gentleman, and very popular among business men as well as in social
circles.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Tina Erb

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