Franklin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Glover, Elijah December 5 1871 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Mickle antiojo2001@yahoo.com July 15, 2004, 7:33 pm Ohio State Journal, December 7, 1871 The Daily Ohio State Journal, Vol. XXXII, No. 490; Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1871, Page 2, Column 6 & 7. Obituary Sketch of the Life of an Old Citizen of Columbus Elijah Glover was born in the City of Boston, Mass, January, 1799, and departed this life Dec. 5, 1871, in the 73d year of his age. In the 14th year of his age, and while the war of 1812 was still in progress, he immigrated into Ohio and settled upon the farm where he ended his days. The first few years of his life were devoted to the hardy toils of the pioneer. He bore his first part and last in making the great State Ohio what it is, the third state in the national constellation. In the 17th year of his age he entered the office of Olmsted & Smith, an apprentice to the printing business. To this vocation he gave the energies of a life of industry, honesty and integrity. As in his early life his strong hand had felled the forest oak and subdued the untilled soils of nature, making the "wilderness and the solitary places glad for them," so in after years he aided by heart and brain work in shaping the intellectual, moral and political destinies of the Great West. Interested in all that conduced to the good and safety of society, and having the martial spirit stirred within him by the war of 1812, we find him subsequently at the head of a military organization known as the "Scioto Guards," and when the war of rebellion broke out nothing but his age and infirmity kept him from the field. Being a warm friend of the bondman, he was especially desirous of raising a regiment of colored troops, always expressing his willingness to die for his country. For years he was also at the head of the Independent fire company of this city, and did much to make that organization efficient. In the year 1841 Mr. Glover began the publication of the Ohio Tribune, a paper devoted to the interest of the old Whig party. For eight years he continued its publication, and then became associated with Mr. Swan in its publication. He subsequently (in 1849) retired from the office of the Tribune, being, says the historian of Franklin county, too honest and independent for the editorship of a political paper. About the year 1855 Mr. G. retired from public life to the quietude of his farm, where, nearly sixty years ago, he settled, when yet the scream of the panther, the howl of the wolf and the whoop of the red man were heard in the forest of Ohio. In the 24th year of his age he was united in marriage to Miss Brown. She not living very long, he was in 1839 married to Miss Scherm, who still lingers upon these shores, yet not without the sweetest consolidation in this dark hour of trial. Born of puritan parents and in the puritan city of Boston, we can well imagine what were the advantages and instructions of the young Mr. Glover. We doubt not that the foundation of his strict integrity, his untiring industry, his moral worth and the simplicity of his whole life was laid (wh?)ere the boy of thirteen sought his home and fortune in the wilds of the then distant West. His public confession of Christ dates back to February, 1831, when S.A. Morris, now senior Bishop of the M.E. Church, was stationed at Town Street in this city. Having found peace in believing, Mr. Glover united with the M.E. Church, of which he continued an exemplary member till called from labor to repose. The writer of this sketch was with him frequently through his last illness, and was with him when he fell asleep. His faith was strong, his hope steadfast, and his consciousness of a fitness for heaven through grace was abiding. When he went down into the valley we asked him if Christ was his light and support, and he responded, yes. We inquired, do you feel fully (assured?) that you will be saved, and he responded, "oh yes, no doubt of it." A few moments before his death he took an affectionate leave of his family and stricken wife, to whom he gave the assurance that he would soon be at home with the saints on high. In this frame of mind, and with reason "full orbed," at fifteen minutes past one o'clock, on the fifth inst., Elijah Glover departed this life, as an old man and full of years, and was gathered unto his fathers. Mr. Glover is represented by those who knew him best as being a man of untiring industry, sterling integrity, rare upright(n?)ess, and of the most scrupulous honesty. His temperament was mild, his judgment was sound, his prognostication of political events remarkable. Among strangers he was reticent, among friends he was genial and communicative. Prudent and careful of the feelings of others, and always engaged in something for his own others prosperity, he gained many friends, and had but few if any enemies. Said one to the writer of this, “I have known Mr. G. for more than 30 years and never knew him to exhibit anger or mutter a single word that would not bear the severest test of Christian scrutiny." With such a record his end was as might be expected, peace. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/franklin/obits/ob386glover.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb