Archibald David Glenn

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Husband Archibald David Glenn ¹

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           Born: 30 Jan 1842 - near Dayton, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: Archibald Glenn (cal 1810-1888) 3 4
         Mother: Susanna Barnes Coursin (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Archibald David Glenn

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A detailed account of his Civil War service appeared in a local newspaper:
"Archibald D. Glenn enlisted as sergeant, Aug. 29th, 1861, in Company B, 78th Pennsylvania Infantry (Col. William Sirwell commanding), and accompanied his regiment to Kentucky; discharged on account of disability, on Feb. 6th, 1863. Re-enlisted in the 58th Regiment, State troops, in July of same year; discharged when the troops were discharged."

He was born while his parents were living at Camp Run, about three miles from Dayton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He attended public school at Milton, the Dayton Union Academy and the Iron City College. When between fifteen and sixteen years of age he commenced teaching, taking a place in Milton which the directors had left vacant. Subsequently he taught in Red Bank and Brady's Bend townships, Armstrong County, at West Mahoning in Indiana County, and in Robinson township, Allegheny County, where he was engaged four consecutive terms of seven months each. When he gave up teaching he was principal of the Woods Run school in Allegheny city. After his army service in the Civil War, he traveled as the representative of Wilson, Hinkle & Co. (later Van Atwerp, Bragg & Co.), of Cincinnati, one of the largest school-book publishing firms in the United States. He remained with this house from April, 1868, to July I, 1870, having his headquarters successively at Pittsburgh, Crestline (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) and Meadville. After quitting the agency he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Eddyville. In 1872 he was elected over six competitors to the office of superintendent of public schools in Armstrong County, to which he was re-elected with comparatively little opposition in 1875 and 1878, serving nine years. At his first re-election his salary was increased. He was made the offer of a fourth election, however, he declined.
He was editor of the Kittanning Union Free Press from June, 1879, to April, 1881, and ably conducted that well-known journal. He served as district deputy grand master of the I. O. O. F. of Armstrong County for two terms and was urged by several lodges to continue longer in that capacity. In 1882 he was nominated without opposition by the Republicans of Armstrong county for the Assembly and was elected by a majority of 180 votes, while his colleague on the ticket for the same office had a much smaller majority. He served through the regular session in 1883, also the special session called to meet the day after the regular session adjourned, June 6, 1883. In 1884 he was re-elected representative by over a thousand majority, and served during the session of 1885, being chairman of the committee on Education. He introduced and had charge of a bill to provide for instruction in the public schools of the State in the subjects of physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. This bill was introduced at the instance of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State. The bill was carried in the House against much opposition and was subsequently passed in the Senate and signed by the governor.
In April, 1886, Mr. Glenn bought a half interest in the Union Free Press in Kittanning, and edited that paper until April, 1887, when, being appointed statistical clerk in the department of public instruction at Harrisburg, he sold his interest in the paper. In 1889 he was appointed financial clerk in the same department and continued in that position until July, 1906, during which time he made the calculations and drew the warrants for the distribution of about ninety million dollars ($90,000,000) of State appropriations to schools. In 1906 he was promoted to the position of deputy superintendent of public instruction. He had his office at Harrisburg. He was a member of John F. Croll Post, G. A. R., Kittanning, Putneyville Lodge, No. 735, I. O. O. F., Kittanning Lodge, No. 244, A. Y. M., and Harrisburg Consistory, A. A. S. R., N. M. J. U. S. A.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 409.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 411.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 416.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 408.