Mrs. D. S. Glidden Biography This biography appears on pages 545-546 in "History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031 . This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm GLIDDEN, MRS. D. S., whose maiden name was Josephine Martin, was born in Clarendon, Orleans county, New York. She was educated in the public schools, and took a two years course at a school for young ladies at Rochester. She was married June 22, 1871, and came with her husband to Montour, Iowa, and resided there until they moved to Sioux Falls. Although her name appears incidentally elsewhere in this work in connection with the literary and musical organizations in Sioux Falls, the character of her services to the public requires a more extensive notice. Nearly twenty years ago she became interested in the establishment of a public library, and from that time up to the present, has labored persistently in this work. It is the method she adopted to accomplish her purpose, and the lesson it teaches, which we wish especially to call attention to. The library is now an established institution, and through the munificence of one of our citizens, W. H. Lyon, has one of the finest buildings in the city for its home. But, as Kipling would say, "that is another story." Mrs. Glidden did not procure large donations, but went at the work before her upon the cumulative plan, and from a small beginning gradually procured about four thousand well selected books which now belong to the Sioux Falls Free Public Library Association. We do not mean to say that she accomplished this result alone, but we do mean to affirm that during all this time she has been the central figure in the enterprise, and it affords a splendid illustration of what might be accomplished in time by the constant, well-directed efforts of a person whose heart is in the work. Mrs. Glidden has also done much to cultivate and expand the literary tastes and attainments of quite a large circle of ladies in Sioux Falls, and this has been accomplished with such rare tact and genuine disinterestedness that she is admired and loved by all her associates.