White County GaArchives Biographies.....Glen, John Randolph 
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Author: Memories of Georgia  1895

John Randolph Glen, editor and publisher, Cleveland, White Co., Ga., son of 
James and Susan (Littlejohn) Glen, was born in Nacoochee Valley, White Co., 
Dec. 10, 1866. 

His paternal grandfather, John Glen, was a native of Lochwinnoch, Scotland, a 
skilled mechanic, who emigrated to this country about 1820 and settled in 
Orange County, N.Y. where he married Miss Eliza Baldwin. He afterward came to 
Georgia and settled in Athens, Clarke Co., where he was engaged in building and 
outfitting the old Athens (first) cotton factory. Subsequently he moved to 
Nacoochee Valley where he died in 1880, aged eighty-six years. His wife died 
there in 1871. 

Mr. Glen's father was born in Glen County; his Mother was a daughter of Abraham 
Littlejohn of North Carolina and both are now living in Nacoochee Valley. 

To them six children were born, all of whom survive: Mamie, Annie, Jessie, wife 
to Oscar Kenimer; Lizzie, James L., and John R., the subject of this sketch. 
Mr. Glen was reared and educated in White Co., and from 1882 to 1896 engaged in 
merchandising two years. From there he went to Corpus Christi, Texas. 

In 1891 he returned to his home in White Co. and after a brief service as 
editor of the "Clarksville Advertiser" he bought the "Cleveland Progress" of 
which he has since been proprietor and editor. It is the origin of the county 
and the Democratic Party, ranks high among the weekly papers of Georgia, has a 
large and excellent patronage; and while it has been a great financial success, 
has attained to marked influence in northeast Georgia. In addition to his 
newspaper he has a fine job printing outfit from which he turns out excellent 
work. In 1893 Mr. Glen's services to his party were recognized and rewarded by 
his appointment as postmaster at Cleveland.

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Iris Thompson Fry


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