History of Monroe County, Wisconsin; Past and Present
published: Chicago:  C.F. Cooper & Co.   1912.

REV. JOHN GEORGE GLAESER,  pastor of the St. Paul’s Lutheran 
church in Tomah, one of the finest churches of this denomination in 
Monroe county, was born at Platteville, Wis., November 24, 1865, the 
son of John and Barbara (Gilbert) Glaeser, both natives of Germany.  
The father emigrated to the United States in 1852 and first located at 
Pottsville, Pa., where he lived two years, working the while in the coal 
mines at that place, removing thence to Platteville, Wis., where he 
acquired sixty acres of land which he tilled and where the family lived 
for fifty years.  In 1907 he retired from active labor, and with the mother 
now lives in Platteville, he at the age of seventy-five and she at the age 
of sixty-seven years.

Rev. Glaeser’s early education was received in the parochial schools; at 
the age of fifteen, he entered the Northwestern University at Watertown, 
Wis., a Lutheran institution, where he acquired a four year classical 
course, which was supplemented by a course of two and one-half years 
at the Lutheran seminary at Milwaukee.  He was ordained and became a 
pastor of the Lutheran church at Paris, Kenosha county, Wis., December 
26, 1887; in 1889 he accepted a call from the church at Town of Berlin, 
Marathon county, Wis., and remained in charge of that church for ten 
and one-half years.  January 11, 1900, he accepted the pastorate of the 
Lutheran church at Tomah, and has since been its popular and efficient 
pastor.  This church is a beautiful edifice with a seating capacity of six 
hundred and fifty.  Under the present pastorate, the church, parochial 
school and Young People’s Society are all in a most flourishing 
condition.

Rev. Glaeser is a member of the Board of Home Missions of the 
Lutheran Wisconsin Synod; a member of the Board of the Northwestern 
College of Watertown, Wis., and Visitator of the Southwest Conference.  
On June 27, 1889, he was united in marriage with Miss Frances Schultz, 
of Milwaukee.  They have an interesting family of five children, viz:  
Frances is a teacher in the schools at Racine, Wis.;  Martin is attending 
the college at Watertown; Beata is employed by Burrows & Son in 
Tomah;  Gilbert and Angelica are at home and are in attendance at 
school.

Submitted by:  Linda Pingel