When Casper Glattfelder's brother died near Basel in 1742, he left a widow, Salomea, and six children with no way to reach America. Casper already had his own wife, Elizabeth, and seven children of his own. He took all of them anyway — and in 1743 carried two families across the Atlantic on a single ship, the Francis and Elizabeth.

Almost every name this family wears in America rode on that one decision. This is the story of the crossing that made the rest possible.

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The Glattfelder Gazette · Season 1, Episode 2 · A publication of the Casper Glattfelder Association of America.

In 1742, a Swiss farmer named Hans Peter Glattfelder sold everything, gathered six families, and set out to take his wife and six children across an ocean to America. He died near Basel, before they reached the open water — and the family turned back, against the current of everything they had planned, to bury him at home.

This is the story of how the American branch of the Glattfelder family nearly ended before it began, and the one decision, by one other person, that kept it alive.

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The Glattfelder Gazette · Season 1, Episode 1 · A publication of the Casper Glattfelder Association of America.

Somewhere on a road between Virginia and Indiana, around 1832, a girl lost her bonnet. Hundreds of us are here because of what happened next.

That’s the kind of story the Glattfelder Gazette tells. Every week we take one ancestor out of the reunion programs, the family histories, and the letters nobody had opened in decades, and we tell their story the way you’d tell it across a kitchen table. Not a lecture. Not a museum tour.

Whether your name is spelled Glattfelder, Glatfelter, Clodfelter, Gladfelter, or any of the other ways it has traveled, this is where the family sits down and talks about where it came from.

The first episode arrives July 25, 2026, and a new story follows every week.

Follow the show now, so the first one is waiting for you.

From the Casper Glattfelder Association of America.

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