Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Glass, Robert 1824 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Robert Glass, farmer. Mr. Glass was born in Monroe Township, Guernsey County, 
Ohio, June 29, 1824, seventh child of a family of thirteen children born to 
Thomas and Rebecca (Storer) Glass. Thomas Glass, who was a farmer by 
occupation, was born near Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1787; he lived in Guernsey 
County, Ohio, until May, 1852, when he moved with his family to Grundy County, 
Ill., where he died, near Gardner, on what is now known as the "Parker farm", 
March 22, 1853, his wife, who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1793, died 
in Grundy County, Ill., February 22, 1853. Of their family of thirteen 
children, eight are deceased, six older and two younger than the subject of 
this sketch. Mr. Glass received a limited education, such as the subscription 
schools of that day afforded, attending for twenty to fifty days each winter 
season, until he attained his majority, when he began working the homestead 
farm on shares with his father, working in that way for about one and one-half 
years. November 12, 1846, he married Mary Little, a native of Guernsey County, 
Ohio, born December 17, 1828, eldest child of a family of eight children, born 
to Francis and Rebecca (McDonald) Little. Francis Little, a native of Ireland, 
born of Protestant parents, came to America with his parents when nine years 
of age, and is now living in Guernsey County, Ohio; his wife, who was of 
Scotch parentage, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and died in Guernsey 
County, Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. GLASS rented a part of his father's 
farm, which he worked for two years, then, in the spring of 1849, moved to 
Grundy County, Ill., and settled on the farm near Gardner, now occupied by Mr. 
Blaney, which he located by a land-warrant for $130. In the spring of 1865, he 
sold this place to Mr. Blaney for $4,000, and bought the east half of the same 
section, where he lived for about sixteen years, and, in the fall of 1881, 
sold out for $14,000, and moved to Kansas, where he purchased 640 acres of 
land, on which he intends to locate permanently; his wife also owns 100 acres 
of land in Carroll County, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Glass have been blessed with nine 
children, five of whom are deceased - Rebecca, born in Guernsey County, Ohio, 
January 21, 1848; Thomas Francis, born in Grundy County, Ill., June 16, 1850; 
George Little, born October 25, 1852, died April 21, 1874; Charles Wesley, 
born October 27, 1855, died April 5, 1871; Alice, born July 12, 1858, died 
January 22, 1859; Robert Lincoln, born September 3, 1859; William Mordecai, 
born October 23, 1865; Andrew Jackson, born June 5, 1868, died June 29, 1868, 
and an infant daughter, born February 3, 1861, died the same day. Of these 
nine children, all, save the eldest, were born in Grundy County, and all those 
deceased died in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Glass are members of the Methodist 
Church. He is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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