Monongalia County, West Virginia    Biography of Samuel Fuller GLASSCOCK

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 

   Samuel Fuller Glasscock, of the law firm of Glasscock & Glasscock at Morgantown, has
been distinguished for his ability and very successful work as a lawyer, and while well
known in the public life in his state, his chief ambition has been in his profession, in which
for a number of years he has been associated with his brother, former Governor W. E.
Glasscock.

   The Glasscock family of Monongalia County was established here more than a century
ago by John Glasscock.  John was soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he and his brother
Hezekiah settled on Indian Creek in Monongalia County.  One of the grandsons of John
Glasscock was Arthur C. Mellette, the first governor of South Dakota.

   Charles Glasscock, son of the Revolutionary soldier, was born in Virginia July 20, 1775,
and was a young man when he came with his father and uncle to Monongalia County.  He
was a miller in Grant District of that county, and died in February, 1840.  His wife was
Mary Arnett, who was born in 1794 and died in 1878.

   Among the children of Charles Glasscock and Daniel Glasscock, father of the
Morgantown lawyers.  Daniel Glasscock was born at Arnettville in 1828 and spent a long
and industrious life as a farmer.  He died in 1910.  He was one of the early members of the
republican party in the state and was a member of the Methodist Church.  In 1859 he
married Prudence Michael, who died in 1904.  Her children were: Stephen A. D., William
E., Louverna, Samuel Fuller, James F., Sarah, Mary J., Alice and Zana.

   Samuel Fuller Glasscock grew up on his fathers farm, acquired his early education in the
public schools, and was a successful teacher for several years.  He graduated in law from
the West Virginia University in 1893, was admitted to the bar the same year, and at once
began his professional work in Morgantown as a member of the firm of Moreland &
Glasscock.  About nine years later he became associated with his brother William E. in the
firm of Glasscock & Glasscock, and they have practiced law together except for four years
period when William was governor of the state.  As a law firm it stands in the front rank
both in point and of ability of the members and the importance of its clientage.  Among
other corporations whose legal affairs they have handled are: General counsel for the
Morgantown & Kingwood Railway Company, now part of the Baltimore & Ohio System;
general counsel for the Elkins Coal & Coke Company and its successor, the Bethlehem
Coal Company; attorneys for the Bank of Morgantown, Glasscock Collieries Company,
the Cheat Canyon Coal Company and others.

   Mr. Glasscock is a past grand of Monongalia Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and was the first president of the Morgantown Rotary Club and a delegate to the
National Convention of Rotary Clubs at Atlantic City in 1920.  He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the County and State Bar associations. 
July 29, 1908, he married Mabel C. Reynolds, daughter of Dr. P. B. Reynolds, who for
many years was professor of metaphysics in the University of West Virginia, of which
Mrs. Glasscock is a graduate.