Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Glasgow, Samuel 1842 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

SAMUEL GLASGOW, a fine type of the foreign element who, by sheer force of 
energetic persistence and well directed labor have made for themselves 
comfortable homes in this county and have secured a good competence, is a 
thoroughly practical, highly successful farmer, owning and managing a choice 
farm in Plainfield Township, and is well worthy of a place in this 
Biographical Album, dedicated to the citizens of Will County. Mr. Glasgow was 
born in the North of Ireland, five miles from Ballymena in the County of 
Ulster, November 8, 1842. His father and his grandfather both bearing the same 
name, Robert Glasgow, were natives of Scotland. The grandfather was a farmer 
and so far as known spent his entire life in the land of his birth. The father 
of our subject was reared and married in Scotland, and moving to Ulstershire, 
leased land and was actively engaged in farming and stock-raising there for 
many years. In 1868, he emigrated to this country, and bought a farm in 
Plainfield Township and was engaged in its management. After the death of his 
wife he made his home with our subject until his death, January 10, 1888, at 
the ripe old age of seventy-five years.. The maiden name of the mother of our 
subject was Margaret Dunscath, and she was of Scottish birth. She died at her 
home in Plainfield, June 10, 1886. Of their children, one died in Ireland, and 
seven came to America, their names being as follows: Catherine, Maria, Samuel, 
Jane, Margaret, Martha and Robert. The subject of this biographical review was 
reared and educated in the place of his nativity. He was early set to work on 
a farm and obtained an excellent knowledge of agriculture in all its branches. 
He lived with his parents until he was twenty-two years old, and then engaged 
with a commission merchant as a buyer of produce, continuing with the same 
firm until 1868. In that year he came to America, hoping to insure his 
prosperity by settling in this great Republic. He landed at New York on the 
13th of July, and coming directly to Illinois, sought and found employment on 
the farm of J. C. Carpenter, of Kendall County. He was with him two years and 
the ensuing year was employed on Judge Caton's farm, and then worked Esquire 
Corbin's place on shares for six years. At the expiration of that time he 
became a landowner in his own right, buying a farm on section 29, of 
Plainfield Township. Five years later he sold that and purchased the place 
where he now resides. This farm contains one hundred and eighty acres, well 
improved, and provided with a fine set of buildings and all the appurtenances 
for operating a farm to the best advantage. May 14, 1864, Mr. Glasgow was 
united in marriage with Miss Martha Asdel, a native of the same place as 
himself, and of Scotch ancestry. They are now the parents of ten children: 
William J., Robert, Margaret J., Samuel, Catherine, James, Anna, George, 
Albert and Edward. The citizenship of Plainfield received a worthy addition 
when our subject came here to reside, as he is a man of excellent reputation, 
is honest and truthful in all the relations that he sustains toward others, 
and is endowed with good practical sense and an excellent capacity for 
skillful labor, and the patience, without which he could not have accomplished 
what he has.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 

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