Gladbach
or MÜNCHEN (mün' chen) GLADBACH, a town of Rhenish Prussia, 16 miles W. of Düsseldorf. It is the center of the Rhenish cotton-spinning industry and has manufactures of silk, wool, linen, and paper, cotton printing works, dye works, bleachfields, iron foundries, machine shops, breweries, and brickworks. Gladbach, which has been a town since 1366, was formerly the seat of an important linen trade; the cotton industry was introduced in the end of the 18th century. The town possesses a GLADIOLUS church dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, the crypt from the 8th. Pop. about 65,000. an American author; born in Pottsgrove, GLADDEN, WASHINGTON, an Pottsgrove, Pa., Feb., 11, 1836; was graduated at Williams' College in 1859; ordained in the Congregational Church, and became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Columbus, O., in 1882. His publications include "Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living" (1868); "Workingmen and Their Employers" (1876); "The Young Men and the Churches" (1885); "Burning Questions" (1889); "Social Facts and Forces" (1897); "The Christian Pastor" (1898); "Where Does the Sky Begin?" (1904); "The New Idolatry" (1905); "The Church and Modern Life" (1908); "Recollections" 1909); "Live and Learn" (1914); "Commencement Days" (1917). He died in 1918.