HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. in Osceola county; and in 1866-77 was a member of the Iowa state legislature. For three years he was mayor of Sibley, Iowa; and for two years was county attorney of
Osceola, Iowa. During the civil war he served in the thirty-eighth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and was promoted from private to lieutenant. He is a noted editor, lawyer, preacher, lecturer and camp fire orator. He is secretary of the Osceola county bar Iowa association; and a member of the grand army of the republic. Glover, John Milton, lawyer, congressman, was born June 33, 1859, in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in the public schools; and at the Washington university. In 1883-87 lie was a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a
democrat. Glover, John Montgomery, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1834, in Mercer county, Ky. He was appointed a colonel of cavalry; and was commissioned colonel of the third Missouri volunteer cavalry in 1861. In 1866 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the third district of Missouri; and in 1873-79 and 1885-89 he was a representative to the forty-
forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. He died Nov. 12, 1891, in Newark, Mo. Glover, Joseph, physician, surgeon, was born about 1780. He was noted for fearlessness and skill as a surgeon. He successfully performed lithotomy, removed a portion of the spleen and omentum, and was one of the first in this country to revive the operation of tapping the head for hydrocephalus. He died about 1840 in Charleston, S.C.
third,
Glover, William, governor, was born about 1670. He was governor of North Carolina in 1706-10. He died in North Carolina. Gllick, James Fraser, lawyer, was born April 28, 1852, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He was curator of the Buffalo library; and presented that library with one of the most valuable collections of autographs, manuscripts, and letters in the United States. He died Dec. 15, 1897, in Buffalo, N.Y. Glynn, Martin, planter, state senator, manufacturer, was born in Ireland; and in 1874 came to the United States and engaged in the wholesale grocery business in New Orleans, La. He subsequently bea planter in
came
Pointe for
Coupee;
and
twenty years hon-
orably
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filled the posi°^ president of the police jury for that parish. For thir-
^'°"
teen years he
member
was an
of the fourth levee district board; and as such rendered valuable ser-
active
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He is an authority on was very active in closfamous Hermitage Crevasse, the
vices to his state. levee matters; and
ing the largest ever close4 on the Mississippi river. He raises cotton and cane on his three plantations, which are thoroughly equipped He is presiwith the latest machinery.
dent and manager of the Glynn planting company, proprietors of modern sugar fac1904-08 tories and cotton ginneries. In he was a member of the Louisiana state senate from the fifteenth district; and resides in Glynn, La. Glynn, James, naval ofSoer, was born about ISOO. He died May 13, 1871. Glynn, Martin H., lawyer, journalist, lecturer, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1871, in Kinderhook, N.Y. He is a practicing lawyer; and also managing editor of the Albany Times-Union. In 1899-1901 he was a representative from New York to the fiftysixth congress as a democrat. Gmeiner, John, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 5, 1847, in Bavaria, Germany. He was a Roman catholic priest' of Milwaukee; professor of homiletics in St. Francis seminary; and St.
seminary of ilinn.
He
Thomas
St. Paul,
is
the au-
Die Katholische Kirohe in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir dem Weltende nahe ? Modern thor
of
Scientific
Christian
Views
D
and
o c t r ines The Spir-
Compared; of Darkness and Their Manifestations on Earth; The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States; Emmanuel, the Savior of the World; and Mediaeval and Modern Cosmology. Gobble, Aaron Ezra, educator, college president, was boi-n Feb. 14, 1856, near Millits
heim, Pa. Since 1887 he has been president of the central Pennsylvania college at New Berlin, Pa. Gobin, John Peter Shindel, soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 26, 1837, in Sunbury, Pa. He entered the civil war a s first lieutenant ^ and was soon appointed to the command of e the regiment. fought with the nineteenth army corps in
H
the Red
river
cam-
paign, and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley; and was brevetted a brigadiergeneral. He was provost judge of South Carolina during the He was state early reconstruction period. senator for sixteen years; and for several years president of the senate. He has also
