What is now Glendale Farms, Inc. began with the purchase of a small dairy farm in 1893 by E.W. Zell and his wife Katherine who emigrated to America from Germany. Zell’s daughter, Myrtle, and her husband, Paul Kluth, later took ownership of the farm, maintaining a dairy herd, and raising hogs and laying hens. Paul and Myrtle’s son, Glenn Kluth, and his wife Beatrice were the next owners. They specialized in an expanded dairy operation and no longer produced hogs and chickens. In addition, Glenn did custom combining. Glenn and Beatrice’s son, Dale Kluth, and his wife June later took ownership of the farm, further expanded the dairy herd, and also purchased neighborhood farmland to add to their land base. In 1977 the farm was incorporated as, “Glendale Farms”.