Shawnee-Leavenworth County KS Archives Biographies.....Glenn, Henry H. 1833 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

HENRY H. GLENN.

    HENRY H. GLENN, one of Topeka's well-known business men and very highly
esteemed citizens, was born at Philipsburg, Center County, Pennsylvania,
February 1, 1833, and is a son of George and Sarah (Hartsock) Glenn.

    Mr. Glenn was educated in the common schools of his native locality and
removed as far West as Illinois in 1857. He was still in that State when the
Civil War broke out and he enlisted for the three-years service, in September,
1861, entering Company C, 34th Reg., Illinois Vol. Inf., under Col. E. N. Kirk.
Two months later he was appointed quartermaster sergeant. After one year of
service he was taken ill and was so sick that his life was despaired of. His
comrades demanded his discharge from their colonel without his knowledge and the
report was sent on to the headquarters of the department. Being delayed by red
tape and having been overlooked in the various business affairs of the official
quarters, the discharge did not arrive for three months and by that time he had
entirely recovered. It was a unique situation. The colonel was aware of his
mathematical accuracy and desiring his services appointed him civilian clerk in
the brigade commissary department. Therefore he continued in the army through
the whole of his term of service, doing as necessary and as important work as if
he had been out on the field. When Sherman started on his "March to the Sea,"
Mr. Glenn, by the advice of his superior officer, boarded the last train for the
North and thus arrived unexpectedly. He is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 1,
Grand Army of the Republic, of Topeka.

    In 1888 he came to Kansas and conducted a mercantile business at Leavenworth
for three years and then came to Topeka. Here he has been in partnership with
his son in conducting "The Fair" and has but lately disposed of his interest.

    Mr. Glenn was married February 8, 1855, to Elizabeth C. Gorazier, who is a
daughter of Henry and Mary (Beck) Gorazier, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. They
had the pleasure of celebrating their "Golden Wedding" on February 8, 1905. They
became the parents of four children, two of whom died in infancy, the survivors
being Jessie E. and William C. The former married G. R. Bothwell, a mining
broker of Salt Lake City, Utah, and they have had seven children: Ina G., who is
in her second year at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California; Zayda,
Charlotte, Roy and Floyd, all attending school in Salt Lake City, and two who
died in infancy. William C. Glenn has been and still is engaged in business
enterprises with his father. He married Margaret Aument and they have two
children: Charlotte M. and Harry A. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn are valued members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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