The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties, 
Illinois Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1893
[Christian Co]

     JAMES L. GLASS, general manager of the Metropolis Heading Factory,
Massac County, which was established in 1888, and which is the largest
factory of the kind in the State, is a son of T.V. Glass, who was born
in Hopkinsville, Ky., but who removed from Hopkinsville and engaged in
general merchandising in connection with Col. Brown for three years and
then removed to Paducah, Ky., and engaged in the hardware businss, in 
company with William Nolan.  He continued in this business ten years,
when the coming on of the war interfered with business and he went into
the Columbia mines, lead and zinc.  He made a success of the mining
business and accumulated a considerable amount of money, and died in
Golcondia, Ill.  He was married in Paducah to Kittie Nolan, a native of
that city, who died in 1891, after marrying Col. Brown.  To T.V. 
Glass she bore three children: William N., of San Francisco, Cal.; 
Katie, deceased, wife of C.J. Morton, who is now living in Nashville, 
Tenn.; and James L., the latter of whom was born in Paducah, Ky.,
February 20, 1863, and was educated in the common schools of Paducah
until he was fourteen years old, about which time his father died, and
he afterward had to make a living for himself.
     Our subject began life as a messenger in a telegraph office, 
remaining thus engaged one year at $4 per month.  He then clerked in a
dry-goods store for seven years, when he removed to Metropolis and engaged
in the insurance business, the firm being W.R. Brown & Co.  He still 
retains the fire insurance agency and in 1888 accepted the position which
he now holds, that of general manager of the Metropolis Heading Factory.
It is due to Mr. Glass to say that the success of this great institution
is mainly owing to his management.  It has an output of sixty thousand
heads per month, its principal shipping points being St. Louis;
Nashville, Tenn.; Minneapolis, Minn; Erie, Pa.; Louisville, Ky.; and 
Columbia, Tenn.
     Mr. Glass was married in 1886 to Alice Brown, daughter of Col. W.R.
Brown, and who was born in Metropolis.  Politically our subject is a
Republican, and from the above brief outlines of his career, it is 
evident that it is wholly owing to his own efforts that he has met with
the success which marks him as a competent business man.  He has had the
entire management of the business of the company, and has built it up
to what it is to-day.  Mr. Glass is a great dog fancier, and has the 
finest dogs in the State, consisting of St. Bernards and Italian hounds.
He is a genial and whole-souled gentleman, and is highly popular wherever
he is known.

Glass Brown Nolan Morton
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Massac-IL Paducah-McCracken-KY Golconda-Pope-IL CA TN MO MN PA

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