Glascock, John Ragland – Glorieux, Alphonsus Joseph
Glascock, John Ragland
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1845, in Panola county, Miss. He was district attorney of Alameda county, Cal., in 1875- 77; and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as congressman at large from California as a democrat.
Glascock, Thomas
soldier, congressman. He was appointed colonel of the troops ordered out by the legislature in defense of the state against the Indians on the western frontier, and was afterwards elected general of militia. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839. He died May 9, 1841, in Decatur, Ga.
Glasgow, Ellen
author, was born in 1875, in Virginia. She is a novelist of Richmond, Va.; and the author of The Descendant: a Novel.
Glasgow, Hugh
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817.
Glasgow, S. L
soldier, legislator, was born in 1838, in Winchester, Ohio.
He served in the civil war; and in 1863 for meritorious services received the rank of brigadier-general. In 1879 he was elected to the Iowa state legislature.
Glass, Presley T
merchant, journalist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1824, in Halifax county, Va. He received his education at the Dresden academy, Tennessee; and at the Lexington Law school. During the war he was in the confederate service; was a commissary, with the rank of major. He served as a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1847; and again in 1883. During his second term in the Tennessee legislature he introduced and secured the passage of the bill to create the agricultural experiment station at Knoxville, Tenn. He served as a member from Tennessee in the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses; and while a member of that body he was the author of the law to elevate agriculture to the level of commerce and manufactures. He has been a successful merchant and journalist of Ripley, Tenn.
Glasscock, John R
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1845, in Panola county, Miss. In 1875 he was elected district attorney of Alameda county, Cal., and served one term, declining a renomination. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-eighth congress.
Glassmann, William
journalist, politician, was born Nov. 12, 1858, in Davenport, Iowa. In 1871 he left home and went west to seek his fortune. In 1890 he was one of the first republican organizers in the state of Utah; and has always taken an active part in political affairs. He is now the editor and proprietor of The Daily Standard of Ogden, Utah, a silver republican newspaper, which has become very popular in the west. He has filled many positions of honor in his adopted state, and is an ardent exponent of silver.
Glasson, John J
naval officer, was born in New York city. He commanded the store-ship Lexington in Perry's Japan expedition in 1853-54; was appointed commander in 1855, and stationed at New Bedford, Mass., from 1861 till 1863. He died March 12, 1882, in New York city.
Glazebrook, Otis A
clergyman, was born Oct. 13, 1845, in Richmond, Va.
In 1875 he was made chaplain of the famous fifth Maryland regiment; and built the church of the Holy Trinity. In 1885 he was called to St. John's church of Elizabeth, N. J.
Glazier, George William
civil engineer, inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1838, in Gardiner, Maine. He is the inventor of spool cotton and paper-box machinery; and is also engaged in their manufacture.
Glazier, Willard
soldier, author, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Fowler, N. Y.
He was a captain in the federal army during the civil war. He is the author of Captured, Prison-Pen, and Escape; Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great Cities; and Down the Great River.
Gleason, Frederic Grant
musician, composer, was born Dec. 17, 1848, in Middletown, Conn. In 1876 he went to Chicago, where he is musical critic of the Tribune. His chief compositions are two operas of the grand romantic type, Otho Visconti and Montezuma.
Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks
physician, author, was born in 1820, in Vermont. She is a physician of Elmira, N. Y., for many years in charge of the Gleason sanitarium. She has published Talks to My Patients.
Gleason, William E
jurist, was born in Maryland. He emigrated to Dakota, where he was appointed United States judge for that territory, residing at Yankton.
Gleim, Christian
journalist, was born Jan. 10, 1780, in Lancaster county, Pa. He settled in Harrisburg in 1812, and was appointed to print the senate journal in English. Afterward he established and edited The Pennsylvanian. He died Sept. 21, 1861, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Gleim, George Christian
soldier, was born in 1736. He took part in the war of the revolution and was severely wounded near Philadelphia. He died July 21, 1817, in Lancaster county, Pa.
Glen, John
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was for many years a judge of the United States district court of Maryland. He died July 8, 1853, in Baltimore, Md.
Glendy, John
clergyman, author, was born June 24, 1755, in Ireland. In 1806 he served as chaplain of the United States house of representatives, and in 1815 and 1816 of the senate. He published an Oration in Commemoration of Washington, delivered in Staunton in 1800. He died Oct. 4, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa.
WILLIAM GLENDY, MARSHALL, naval officer, was born in 1801, in Virginia. He was promoted to the rank of commodore in 1862, and in the following year was made prize commissioner in Washington, D. C. He died July 16, 1873, in Baltimore, Md.
Glenn, Elias
jurist, was born in Maryland. He was appointed judge of the United States court for that state.
Glenn, Henry
congressman, was born in 1741. He took an active part in the revolutionary war; and was a representative from New York in congress from 1793 to 1801. He died in 1814, in Schenectady.
Glenn, James
governor, author. He was governor of South Carolina from 1744 till 1755. He published A Description of South Carolina.
Glenn, John Thomas
lawyer, was born March 21, 1846, in Walton county, Ga. He has served as city attorney of Atlanta; solicitor-general; mayor of Atlanta; and member of the board of education.
Glessner, Douglas
journalist, public official, was born in Delaware, Ohio. In 1882 he moved to Griffin, Ga., where he is the editor and proprietor of the News and Sun.
Glessner, Oliver J
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Oct. 11, 1828. In 1864 he was elected judge of the eighth judicial district, composed of the counties of Morgan, Shelby, Johnson, Brown, and Monroe.
In 1870 he was elected by his party to the state senate, as a member for the counties of Shelby and Bartholomew, serving as such for four years. He has also filled numerous public offices in the gift of his county and state.
Glick, George W
farmer, lawyer, governor, was born July 4, 1827, in Greencastle, Ohio. He served nine sessions in the house and senate of the Kansas legislature. He served with distinction as governor of Kansas for one term; and was twice United States pension agent for the Topeka district by appointment of President Cleveland.
Glidden, Charles Jasper
banker, was born Aug. 29, 1857, in Lowell, Mass. He is president of the Traders' National bank of Lowell.
Glisan, Rodney
physician, author, was born Jan. 29, 1827, in Linganore, Md.
He is a physician of Portland, Ore., emeritus professor of obstetrics in Willamette university; and the author of Journal of Army Life; Modern Midwifery; and Two Years in Europe.
Glisson, Oliver S
naval officer, was born Jan. 18, 1809, in Ohio. In 1826 he was made a midshipman; captain in 1862; commodore in 1866; and rear-admiral in 1870. He was retired in 1871.
Gloninger, John
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative from that state in the twelfth congress; and resigned before the expiration of his term.
Glorieux, Alphonsus Joseph
catholic bishop, was born Feb. 1, 1844, in Belgium. He received his education at the college of Courtrai, Belgium; at the American College of Louvain, Belgium; and at the university of Louvain. In 1867 he was ordained to the priesthood; and served as a missionary in the southwestern diocese of Oregon. He has been rector of St. Paul's church, Oregon; principal of St. Michael's college of Portland, Ore.; and on April 19, 1885, was principal of St. Michael's college, of Portland, Ore.; and on April 19, 1885, was consecrated catholic bishop of Boise City, Idaho. The Right Rev. Glorieux is a scholastic man, and has contributed largely to the religious literature of his church.