Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S., History of the Disciples of Christ in
Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915.  pages
518-519.  This online editon (c) James L. McMillan. Nicholas County.

Biographical Sketch of Archibald A. Glenn. Died Wichita, Kan., 1901.

Mr. Glenn was of Scotch-Irish lineage.  His paternal grandfather came from
Ireland to America just before the Revolution.  His mother was a
Kentuckian - a woman of refinement and great strength of character.

His father's family moved to Indiana in 1820, from there to Vermilion
County, Ill., in 1823, and afterward to Schuyler County.  The father died
in 1832, leaving his family but little property.  Archibald, then a lad of
fourteen, with his mother, kept the family of six younger children
together and managed the farm.  When his brothers were older and able to
work, Archibald went to Rushville, learned the printing business and
published a paper in the interests of the Whig party.  Next, he went to
Mt. Sterling and became a bookkeeper in a store.  In 1853 he was elected
county clerk.  This was the beginning of his political career.  He served
as superintendent of schools in Brown County one term.  He was a delagate
to the convention that amended the State's Consitution in 1862.  General
Lippencott, State Auditor in 1868, regarded Mr. Glenn as one of the most
capable members of the State Board of Equalization.  He was elected to the
State Senate in 1872, and became president of that body and ex-officio
Lieutenant Governor in 1874.  The little school training that Mr. Glenn
received was in the country schools. Technically, he was not an educated
man, but he came, by reading and absorbing the contents of many good
books, into the possession of a prodigious fund of information that he
used with commanding ability.

He was a member of the church of Christ at Mt. Sterling and was a staunch
and true Disciple.  Always and everywhere and in all things he stood
four-square for the best things in life.

Glenn Lippencott
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Ireland Vermilion-IL Schuyler-IL Brown-IL

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