Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Glover, William J. 1856 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM J. GLOVER.

    William J. Glover has almost completed his second term as recorder of Lake
county, and during an eight years' incumbency of that office has set a standard
of efficiency and administrative ability which is a matter for pride to himself
and for profit and good to the county. Like most of the worthy citizens of Lake
county, Mr. Glover has spent his years in labor providing for the material wants
of himself and family, and is therefore a popular man in the true sense of that
word. He first became known to Lake county as an employe of the iron mills of
East Chicago, and for the past fifteen or more years has been an upright,
public-spirited and hard-working citizen, always steadily progressing toward a
higher goal of endeavor. As a public official in various places of trust he has
shown himself worthy of honor and confidence and an excellent depositary of the
county's administrative affairs.

    Mr. Glover is a Pennsylvanian by birth and rearing. He was born at Bolivar,
January 26, 1856, and is of Scotch lineage in only the third generation from the
original American progenitor. His paternal grandfather, James Glover, was born
in the city of Edinburg, Scotland, and came to the United States something over
seventy years ago. He settled in Maryland, and died at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
at ninety-two years of age. Robert Glover, the father of the Lake county
recorder, was born in Maryland, and is now seventy-one years old, residing in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has been a stationary engineer nearly all his life.
His wife is also living at the age of sixty-seven, and her maiden name was Clara
Corsin.

    Mr. William J. Glover was taken to Pittsburg in childhood, and was educated
there in the public schools. He found employment at different lines of work
before he entered the iron mills, and for some twenty-two years he was employed
in the iron mills in Pittsburg and in East Chicago. He came to Chicago,
Illinois, in 1882, and in 1888 settled at East Chicago. The latter was a mere
towTn at that time, and he was one of the first settlers. In addition to his
daily work he became identified with the public life of the place, and before
long was taking an active part in Republican politics. He was elected and served
one term as treasurer of East Chicago, and was elected to the city council for
two terms. While serving in the latter position he was elected, in 1896, to the
office of recorder of Lake county, and then severed his connection with affairs
in East Chicago and moved to Crown Point, where he has since made his home. He
was chosen for a second term as recorder in 1900, so that he has served nearly
eight years. He has always been a Republican, and is a man of popular and genial
manners, just such a one as the people of a community pick out as a
representative citizen and choose for their various administrative offices.

    Mr. Glover has affiliations with the Masons, the Elks, the Foresters, the
Maccabees, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. He
was married in June, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Owens, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
They have five children: Robert S., Edward C, Florence M., William J., Jr., and
Helen.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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