WILLIAM
GLENN, farmer, post-office North Sandy, is a son of Samuel and
Jennie (Barr) Glenn, natives of County Derry, Ireland, who came to
America in 1790 with John Glenn, the grandfather of our subject. They
remained near Philadelphia three years and then settled in Allegheny
County. They first came to Mercer County in 1803, and in 1806 purchased
the farm now owned by our subject, in Mill Creek Township, where the
parents of our subject died. His father, Samuel, was in the War
of 1812, served the township as justice of the peace for about forty
years; voted the Whig, afterward the Republican ticket, and was a
member of the Rocky Spring United Presbyterian Church. His wife died in
1855 and he followed in 1859. Their children were Eliza, Mrs. John
Brandon; John; Margeret, Mrs. James Pinkerton; David, Mary, Martha,
Matilda and Samuel, in Erie County, Penn.; Jane, Mrs. Joseph Stevens,
of French Creek Township. Our subject was born on the homestead he now
owns May 28, 1820, attended the log school-house of that period and has
been engaged in farming principally. In 1855 he erected a grist-mill on
North Sandy Run, which he conducted for about fourteen years. The mill
has since been known as the Glenn Mill. He also built a saw-mill on the
same run, which he conducted for about twenty years. In 1847 he married
Miss Esther, daughter of John Dickey, of Mill Creek Township. She
died in 1865, leaving eight children, six of whom are still living: Ann
Eliza, Mrs. Charles Baker of Erie, Penn.; Oscar, in the United States
Navy, now on board the “Michigan” and stationed at Erie; Melvina, Mrs.
A. L. Reid, of Butler, Penn.; Jennie, Mrs. John Deemer, of Venango
County, Penn.; Margaret, Mrs. George Bright; Hettie, Mrs. John Cleland.
The second wife of our subject was Mrs. Isabella Free, daughter of John
Clayton, of Mill Creek Township.
He has held the offices of
school director and supervisor of the township; is a member of Worth
Lodge No. 554, I. 0. 0. F., and a member of the Sandy United
Presbyterian Church, and votes the Republican ticket.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1087
Note:
William Glenn died 15 Jun 1892 and is buried in Glenn Gilliland
Cemetery, along with his parents, his first wife and several of his
children.
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