Biography of Robert Glenn - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 70

Robert Glenn, an enterprising merchant of Morrilton, owes his nativity to
Lumpkin County, Ga., born in 1846, being one of a family of ten sons and four
daughters born to Samuel and Eliza (Bennett) Glenn, who came from Georgia in
about 1852 and settled in the wilderness in which is now Faulkner County, Ark.,
near where the Town of Greenbriar is situated, being one of the pioneers of that
neighborhood. Here the mother died about 1858; she was a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church many years; Mr. Glenn also. He afterward married Julia
Fuqua and both are still living on the old farm near Greenbriar. Mr. Glenn is
about eighty years old. He has served many years as Justice of the Peace, both
before and since the war. His eldest son, William (deceased), served all through
the Confederate army. Hiram S., now a merchant at Benton, also served through
the same, in different commands Andrew first enlisted in the Confederate army
and after a short service was discharged, but was soon after conscripted and did
service in that army till after the taking of Little Rock by the Federal troops,
after which he joined the Federal army, in which he operated till the close of
the war. He is now a merchant at Conway. James, a farmer near Greenbriar;
Solomun, also a farmer near Greenbriar. Another son, Samuel, enlisted in the
Confederate army, and while the command in which he was serving was being
transported across the Mississippi River in the early part of the war many of
them met watery graves, he being among the number. The two surviving daughters
of Samuel Glenn are Elizabeth, now a widow, and Eliza, wife of Robert Townsend,
of Perry County. The subject of our sketch was reared in a time when educational
facilities were very meagre, hence his literary attainments are limited. He,
like other members of his father's family, was a staunch Union man and did about
eighteen months of active service in defence of the stars and stripes, serving
in Company L of the 3d Arkansas Cavalry with Capt. Hinkle, operating altogether
in Central Arkansas. In 1865 he married Miss Mary Edwards, a daughter of Henley
and Caroline Edwards, who were natives of Alabama, from whence they came to what
is now Faulkner County about 1855. Here Mr. Edwards died during the war. Mrs.
Edwards afterwards married Mr. John Bryant and is now living in Van Buren
County. Mrs. Glenn was born in Alabama, and is the mother of eight children,
four sons and one daughter living Mr. Glenn farmed till about 1880, when he
engaged in merchandising at Conway, the firm being Glenn & Ray till 1888, when
Mr. Glenn removed to Morrilton, where he has since been in business alone,
carrying a stock of general merchandise to the value of $3000. He has a good
home and a good business property in Morrilton, all of which is the result of
his own efforts. Politically, Mr. Glenn is a Republican, his first presidential
vote being given for Gen., Grant in 1868. He is a member  of the G. A. R. Post
of Conway, and he and wife and three children hold membership in the Missionary
Baptist Church.