Hood River-Grant County OR Archives Biographies.....Glaze, C. E. August 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com May 26, 2009, 8:36 pm Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company C. E. GLAZE, who, after a long and active career as a rancher and cattleman in eastern Oregon is now practically retired from business, was a pioneer cattleman in this state and through his persistent industry and wise management was rewarded with well merited success and is now numbered among the solid and substantial citizens of his community. Mr. Glaze was born in Ray county, Missouri, in August, 1862, a son of Lawrence and Julia (Elliott) Glaze. His father, who was of Holland and German descent, was born in Pennsylvania, October 12, 1813, and died at Verdella, Missouri, October 12, 1882, while the mother, who was of English and Welsh descent, was born in Georgia, April 20, 1831, and died at Hemet, Riverside county, California, in August, 1909. Lawrence Glaze was reared to the life of a farmer but, in the hope of bettering his fortunes, he and his brother John joined the gold rush to California in 1849, crossing the plains with an ox team and covered wagon, and for two years he engaged mining on Feather river. He was fairly successful and in 1851 returned to his home in Missouri, where he engaged in the cattle business until 1870. He next went to the Indian territory, where he ran cattle for three years, and was later in the same business in Texas for five years. He returned to Missouri in 1879 and there resided until his death. He was a soldier in the southern army during the Civil war, and also fought in the Mormon war. To him and his wife were born seven children, namely: George, deceased; C. E.; Dr. R. Glaze, of Yuma, Arizona; Elizabeth, deceased; Bascom who lives in Oklahoma; Mrs. Martha McAlister, of San Diego, California; and Mrs. Anna Franklin, deceased. C. E. Glaze was educated in the public schools of Missouri and Texas and assisted his father in the cattle business until he attained his majority. In 1883 he came to Oregon and took up a homestead and a preemption claim on the John Day river in Grant county, eastern Oregon, about thirty-five miles west of Canyon City. He built a small log house and engaged in the cattle business, being one of the first men in that part of the state to follow cattle raising on a large scale. He remained there for twenty-five years, during which time prosperity attended his efforts, so that he became the owner of seven hundred acres of fine grazing land and large herds of cattle. In 1908 Mr. Glaze sold his cattle and, coming to the Hood River valley, bought thirty acres of land, a part of the old Benson donation claim, about twenty acres of which was in fruit. Later he sold that part of it which contained the orchard and is now living comfortably on the remaining ten acres. His place is known as Shelter Cove farm and among its attractive features is a nice stream of good water which runs through it. On September 16, 1903, near Lamar, Missouri, Mr. Glaze was united in marriage to Miss Monta V. McCuistion, who was born in Ray county, Missouri, and is a daughter of Captain Gwinn and Martha J. (Lile) McCuistion. Mrs. Glaze's father was a farmer and fruit grower and a member of the Horticultural Society of Barton county, Missouri. He was born in Bedford county, Tennessee, September 3, 1829, a son of James and Isabel (McClintock) McCuistion, natives of Guilford county, North Carolina, the former born September 15, 1805, and the latter January 27, 1808. They accompanied their respective parents to Tennessee in their youth and were there married in March, 1825. Four years later they removed to Ray county, Missouri, and in 1858 to Navarro county, Texas, where the mother died in April, 1867, and the father in September, 1869. James McCuistion served in the Black Hawk and Mormon wars, being a lieutenant in the latter, and throughout life was engaged in farming. His father, James McCuistion, who was also a farmer, was born in the Palmetto state in 1758 and served in the Revolutionary war. After its close he made his home in Guilford county, North Carolina, for some time and in 1806 went to Davidson county, Tennessee, and built the first grist mill in that county. There he passed away in March, 1826. In 1830 his aged widow traveled on horseback, with her son James, to Ray county, Missouri, a distance of six hundred miles, in twenty days. She died December 1, 1841. The paternal great- great-grandfather of Mrs. Glaze was a Scotchman who came to America from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1700 and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where he died. His name was James and his son Thomas was her great-grandfather. Gwinn McCuistion, the eldest of five sons and three daughters, was three years old when taken by his parents to Ray county, Missouri. He received a common school education in the log schoolhouses of that day and for a year and a half attended the high school at Richmond, Missouri. He spent eleven years in teaching, at first receiving a salary of only fifteen dollars per month, but toward the close of his service as a teacher received sixty dollars per month, and during the last seven years taught in the same schoolhouse. Success followed his labors until the Civil war and during that struggle he lost much of his property. On the 28th of March, 1850, he married Miss Martha J. Lile, a daughter of Henry W. and Lydia (Corner) Lile. Her father was from the state of Tennessee, while her mother was from Ohio, and about the year 1820 they went with their parents to Ray county, Missouri, being united in marriage in 1828. Mr. Lile was born November 17, 1803, and his wife April 8, 1809. In 1854 they moved to Daviess county, Missouri. He died January 26, 1879, and his widow, who long survived him, passed away in that county, April 15, 1906, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. He served in the Black Hawk and Mormon wars, being a major in the latter, and was sheriff of Ray county, Missouri, for several years. Mr. McCuistion resided in Barton county, that state, from 1880 and owned a fertile and well improved farm of eighty acres. He served in the Confederate army, in Company C, Third Missouri Infantry, as captain, until after the fall of Vicksburg. He then commanded Companies C and F (consolidated) until the close of the war and was engaged in nearly all of the battles fought by his division of the army, and was once wounded by a gunshot. He was captured at the battle of Blakely, April 19, 1865, and on the day of exchange of prisoners, came under the capitulation when hostilities ceased. Before the war he was a whig in politics but since that time has been a democrat. He was a Master Mason, having belonged to Lamar Lodge, No. 292. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. They were parents of the following named children: Perneety F., the deceased wife of Harrison Hamer, of Barton county, Missouri; James W., of Carroll county, Missouri; Nancy R., the wife of Balaam Barham, of Earleton, Kansas; John G., of Iantha, Missouri; Martha J., the wife of J. M. Casteel, of Willowa, Oregon; Charles H., of Colorado; and Monta V. Mrs. Glaze's grandfather, James McCuistion, and his son Gabriel, with a few others, crossed the plains to California in 1849, and engaged in mining, but returned to Missouri in the early '50s. Mr. and Mrs. Glaze are the parents of two children, namely: Juanita, who was born January 20, 1909, and after her graduation from the Hood River high school entered the State Normal School at Monmouth, Oregon, which she is now attending, taking the teacher's training course; and Clifton Darwin, who was born May 18, 1915, and is a student in the junior high school at Hood River. Mr. Glaze is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in his political views is an ardent democrat. He is a man of fine personal qualities, cordial and friendly in manner, and holds a high place in the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. 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