Biographical Sketch of Henry E. Glazier, De Kalb County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888,
				Goodspeed Publishing Company

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Henry E. Glazier, the subject of this sketch, was born in Orange,
Cuyahoga County, OH., November 27, 1840.  He attended the old log 
schoolhouse in which James A. Garfield received the rudiments of an
education, and when six years old accompanied his parents to a small 
tract of land about four miles from Cleveland.  At the age of eleven,
in company with his father, he traveled overland to Van Buren County,
Mich., then a dense wilderness, where they arrived about mid-winter.
The father, Rody Glazier, had exchanged the property referred to for
eighty acres of Michigan timber without having seen it, a transaction
which disappointed him upon reaching his future home.  Owing to the
severe weather they retraced their steps to Paw Paw, the county seat
of that county, where they were joined some six weeks later by the 
remainder of the family, consisting of the mother, two sisters and two
brothers.  Subsequently Henry obtained a situation in a store, but 
later assisted his father in the improvement of his farm, being de-
prived in the meantime of an education.  His time was thus occupied
until the age of twelve, when, the family having moved to Kalamazoo
County, he attended the district school for three months, and afterward
two terms at Schoolcraft.  When eighteen years old he was placed in 
charge of a water-mill, which his father had purchased, conducting it
for a year and a half, when, with his father's family he removed to
Will County, IL.  In 1859 Henry embarked in the grocery business in
Chicago, but in 1860, with his father, he started for California in
search of gold.  His experiences in that country are too numerous to 
mention in this connection, but in 1862 he returned to the States,
going to Livingston County, MO., where the family had moved during his
absence.  Early in 1863 he enlisted in "Merrill's Horse", Second
Missouri Cavalry, and was soon promoted, and the following spring re-
ceived a captain's commission in the One Hundred and Thirteenth United
States Colored Infantry, in which capacity he served until mustered out
in April, 1865.  Returning home, Mr. Glazier entered the law office of
McMillen & Norval, in Chillicothe, and in the winter of 1866 attended
the law department of the university at Ann Arbor, Mich.  In May, 1867,
he was admitted to the bar, and in February, 1868, embarked upon the
practice of his profession at Maysville, De Kalb County, MO., engaging
also in a general real estate and loan business.  In January, 1878, he
purchased the Maysville Register and immediately improved and enlarged
its publication, and thus started the first steam printing office in 
the third congressional district.  In 1881 he built a fine opera hall,
and in other ways has ever been first and foremost in the upbuilding of
the county, and especially Maysville.  It was largely through his
efforts that the present courthouse and jail were erected.  From 1883
until 1886, besides his other branches of business, he carried on
general mercantile pursuits, and in 1882, in compliance with a request,
and upon the solicitation of numerous friends, he was induced to become
a candidate for Congress, a contest, however, in which Hon. A. M. Dockery
was the successful one.  In October, 1885, Mr. Glazier was appointed
postmaster of Maysville.  As a man he is fearless and progressive, un-
tiring in his undertakings, and aggressive in warfare when favoring a
proposition, men and measures, and he throws his whole heart into the
cause.  In 1869 he married Miss L. E. Holmes of Spencer, IL., and they
have had two children:  Harry, a promising child aged five and a half,
and A. Bertie, who is at present attending Christian College, Columbia,
Missouri.

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