Frank S. Glidden of Epping, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 852

     FRANK S. GLIDDEN, a well known and popular citizen of Epping,
where he is conducting a prosperous livery business, was born at North-
wood, N. H., July 4, 1865, a son of Jeremiah Davis, a Civil War veteran.
His parents died when he was about three years old and he was adopted
by William H. and Mary E. (Hall) Glidden, taking the name of his
foster father, who was a prominent farmer of Brentwood.  He was

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educated in the district schools, which he attended until about fourteen
years of age, and was then obliged to give up his studies and go to
work on the farm, receiving his board and clothes.  At the age of fif-
teen he secured a position driving a team in Brentwood, for which he
received fifteen dollars a month and his board.  After being thus occu-
pied for one year, he went to Haverhill, Mass., where for a year and a
half he was engaged in driving an express wagon.  He then returned
to farming and was thus occupied until he was twenty-one, working for
others, after which he leased a farm for one year.  He then went to
Manchester and was in the milk business there for five years, at the
end of which time he returned to Brentwood, where he purchased a farm,
operating it for five years.  Subsequent to this he was overseer at
the county farm for two years, and later for awhile had charge of a
summer stable at Hedding Camp Ground. About this time he began
to see brighter prospects for himself in the livery business, and on De-
cember 27th, 1908, he came to Epping and started his present business
on Depot Square.  His career since that time has been one of pros-
perity and he is now one of the substantial citizens of the town.  His
stable is well equipped with fine horses and carriages, as well as an
automobile for the traveling public.
     Mr. Glidden married Miss Anna G. Miles of Brentwood, and they
have four children, Edna R., Mildred E., Addie E. and Bessie I.  Edna
R., now twenty-four years old, was educated in the schools of Brent-
wood and Dover.  She married Leon Sylvester, and they have a son,
Wesley M.  Mildred E. was educated in Brentwood and at the Sanborn
Seminary at Kingston.  Addie and Bessie are now attending the high
school at Epping.
     Mr. Glidden has served the town as highway agent for several years.
He is a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which
he has held all the chairs.  In politics he is a Republican and he is affi-
liated with the Baptist church.  He is the owner of a fine residence in
Epping.