1908 Bio: Fred B. Glover, Kansas City, Jackson Co, Missouri http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jackson/bios/glover-fred-b.txt Transcribed by Gary D. Niehaus February 2005 =============================================================== From the book: "Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its people 1800-1908", Carrie Westlake Whitney, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co, Chicago, pages 96-99, 1908. =============================================================== Fred B. Glover Fred B. Glover is conducting a real-estate business in Kansas City and has also operated to some extent as a speculative builder, whereby he has aided in transforming unsightly vacancies into attractive residence districts and thus improved and benefited the city. A native of Ohio, he was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont County, on the 1st of November, 1860, and acquired his education in the country schools while spending his boyhood days in the home of his father, M.J.W. Glover, who was a prominent and influential attorney at St. Clairsville until his later years, when he established his home upon a farm in Belmont County. The mother bore the maiden name of Margaret Askew and unto them were born five children, three of whom are yet living. In 1879, when a young man of nineteen years, Fred B. Glover arrived in Kansas City and engaged in clerking for the Askew Saddlery Company, dealers in saddlery and hardware. He was thus in business for about four years, when the De Camp Le Voy Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, established a branch house in Kansas City and he entered their employ as a traveling salesman, remaining upon the road for two years. About that time the Bank of Commerce took over a soap factory on account and Mr. Glover represented that house as a traveling salesman until 1886, when he left the road and joined his brother, W.A. Glover, in the establishment of a partnership for the conduct of a real-estate business. Two years later the business relation was dissolved and since that time Mr. Glover has been alone in the conduct of a real-estate office. He has been the medium of many realty transfers of importance and has handled much valuable property. As a speculative builder about three years ago he erected twenty- eight houses in Kansas City for sale and is now engaged in looking after his property interests. Many of these he has disposed of at a good profit and in real-estate circles there are few who have more intimate knowledge of property interests or more correctly appraise the value of realty here. Mr. Glover has also been active in the organization and conduct of the River Bend Ranch and Cattle Company, of which he is now the secretary. This company owns four townships in Yuma County, Colorado, upon which are found two thousand head of cattle. This is an important business enterprise, conducted along modern lines of agricultural progress. The company has built up an excellent ranch, setting out timber and adding all modern accessories and conveniences necessary to the conduct of a business of this character. Mr. Glover was married in 1889, at Marshall, Missouri, to Miss Effie Hall, a daughter of Mathew Walton Hall, an old-time physician of Marshall, Missouri. They have two children: Lester Askew, sixteen years of age; and, Margaret Agnes, fourteen years of age. In the prosecution of his business there has been manifest one of the sterling traits of Mr. Glover's character - his desire to carry forward to the highest perfection attainable anything that he undertakes. Not content with mediocrity in any line, he has given deep thought to his real-estate operations and by careful utilization of his opportunities and his inherent powers has gained place with those whose efforts are the basis of their honorable success. *************************************************************** All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************