Biography of H.S. Glenn, Saline Co, AR

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SOURCE: Goodspeed's History of Saline County

H.S. Glenn, a well-known merchant and farmer of Benton, was born in Franklin
County, Ga., September 30, 1836, and is the son of Samuel and Eliza (Bennett)
Glenn, natives of Georgia and South Carolina.  Samuel Glenn was a farmer and
moved from Franklin County, Ga. To Lumpkin (now Dawson ) County about the year
1837, where he remained until 1852. He then came to Arkansas and located on a
farm in Conway (now Faulkner) county, twelve miles north of Conway, settling a
place in the woods, and making a home, where he is still living at the age of
seventy-eight years.  He held the office of justice of the peace both in
Georgia and Arkansas, and with his wife and family was a member of the Baptist
Church. Mrs. Glenn died in 1858, having borne thirteen children, eight of whom
are living: James, Robert, S.H., Elizabeth, Lydia, Andrew, Eliza and Solomon Q.
H.S. Glenn was reared to farm life and educated in the common schools of
Georgia, accepting every opportunity that presented itself, for the school
facilities were very limited at that time.  He was ambitious to begin life for
himself, and, commencing at an early age to work, engaged in farming for some
time.  In 1859 he was married to Miss Cynthia Allen, a daughter of William
Allen, one of the first settlers of Saline County.  Mrs. Glenn only lived a few
years after her marriage, and Mr. Glenn chose for his second wife Miss Winnie
Julian, a native of Georgia and a daughter of Rezin Julian, a farmer who came
to Arkansas in 1850.  To this union four children have been born, all of whom
are living: Leoria (born October 6, 1867, and the wife of J.R. Donnell, a
druggist living at Greenbrier, Ark.), Samma A. (Born August 10, 1870), James H.
(born July 25, 1873) and Janna (born April 13, 1876). Mrs. (Julian ) Glenn died
in Benton, Ark., October 10, 1878.  She was a loving wife and mother, and a
very great favorite among her wide circle of friends. In 1880 Mr. Glenn married
Miss Marthia Lucus, a native of Alabama, born in 1848.  One child is the result
of this union, Mary Eveline, born August 20, 1882. Mr. Glenn enlisted in the
Fourth Arkansas Cavalry in 1861, bon on account of his wife's sickness did not
go with the command. Later on he enlisted for the Trans-Mississippi army, but
being wrecked on the White River returned home again.  In the same year (1862)
he joined Fagan's regiment at Bellefonte, Ark., and was in the battle of Back
Bone Mountain, fight of Poison Springs (Mark's Mills), where he was wounded by
gunshot and laid off to recruit for one month.  He was in a great many
skirmishes, also with Price on his raid through Missouri, and finally was
paroled at Camden, Ark., in June, 1865.  At the close of the war Mr. Glenn
resumed the occupation of farming in Saline County until 1878, when he came to
Benton and engaged in the mercantile business.  In 1883, he moved to Faulkner
County (Greenbrier), selling foods at that place till 1886, then entering into
partnership with W.A. Bell, a concern well and favorably known throughout the
country.  A general stock of merchandise of all kinds is carried including
hardware and farming implements of every description, and such as meets the
needs of the surrounding region.  Mr. Glenn is a member of Benton Lodge No. 34,
A.F.& A.M., also of Benton Lodge No. 1319, K. of H., and with his wife and
family is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he is deacon.  In
addition to his mercantile business he has two farms, one of 135 acres near
Benton, sixty-five of which are cultivated, and another of 110 acres situated
on Hurricane Creek.  Forty acres of this farm are cultivated, and the two
together will average with most farms in the county.  Mr. Glenn is one of the
most prominent and influential citizens of the county, and is respected and
esteemed by the entire community.