GLOVER, John Stewart 1824-1900

GLOVER, LUTES, DAVIS, KNOTTS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 9/17/2013 at 22:23:07

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Saturday, January 27, 1900, Waterloo, Iowa]

The funeral services of the late John S. Glover will be held from the house tomorrow at two o'clock p. m., conducted by Rev. W. S. Craft, assisted by Rev. J. D. Van Ness, of Marshalltown, who was Mr. Glover's former pastor. The casket will be opened from ten o'clock until one to afford the friends the opportunity to view the remains. At the grave a short service will be conducted by the Masonic fraternity of which Mr. Glover was a member. The remains will be interred beside those of his wife in Elmwood Cemetery.

The remains arrived at twelve o'clock last night accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis. Mr. Glover's brother, T. S. Glover, who was his former partner, arrived this morning from New York, and other relatives who will attend the funeral are: Mrs. Helen Knotts, Worth, Mo., Mrs. Dr. Hoover, Lincoln, Neb.; and Alexander J. Arthur, Fort Dodge.

John Stewart Glover was born in Ireland, April 15, 1824, and came to America in 1838, locating at Brooklyn, N. Y. His boyhood days were spent in Brooklyn and Geneva, N. Y. where he worked as a clerk in the dry goods store of his uncle, H. D. Hughes. At an early age he was apprenticed to a book publisher in Brooklyn and learned the printer's trade. He secured a position with the New York Herald and was in the employ of that office for over twenty years. In 1865 he went to Warsaw. N. Y.. and entered the employ of his brother, T. S. Glover where he remained until 1867 when the two brothers came to Waterloo and purchased the dry goods business of H. Belden & Co. T. S. Glover withdrew from the firm some years afterward and Mr. Glover's nephew, Alexander J. Arthur was associated with him in the business for a number of years under the firm name of Glover & Arthur. For a number of years, however, Mr. Glover had conducted the business alone.

He was a member of the M. E. church for over forty years and was prominently identified with the Masonic lodge of which he had been a member for years.

Mr. Glover was one of the pioneer dry goods merchants of Waterloo and during the thirty-two years of his residence had cultivated a large circle of friends who were deeply grieved at the news of his death.