John Franklin Glover

GLOVER, FISHER, UPTON

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Date: 3/5/2007 at 21:28:17

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

JOHN FRANKLIN GLOVER.

Osceola county is proud to honor John Franklin Glover as one of her citizens. During the course of a long and busy career he has filled many important positions. He has been a soldier in the Civil War, a clerk of the district court, a member of the state Legislature, the mayor of the city, newspaper editor, a lawyer, a public speaker, a gardener and a minister of the Gospel. He was born September 16, 1845, in Hartleton, Union County, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Eliza (Fisher) Glover. In 1846 his parents moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, where they lived until their deaths. The subject, when a day old, moved to Monroe, Wisconsin, and was living there when the Civil War broke out. In 1864 Mr. Glover enlisted in Company D, Thirty-eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and was later transferred to Company F in the same regiment. During the course of his service he was promoted and made first sergeant and subsequently commissioned as second lieutenant and was mustered out as sergeant. He served under General Grant in the campaigns in Virginia.

Mr. Glover had not completed his education when he enlisted in the cause of the Union. He had had some schooling in Freeport, Illinois, and Monroe, Wisconsin, but after the war was over he entered Wisconsin University and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871 and Master of Arts in 1874. The same year he came to Osceola County and shortly afterwards was elected clerk of the court of this county. In the meantime he was studying law and in 1878 he was admitted to the practice of all the courts of this state. Rapidly forging to the front as a lawyer and being a man of ability as a public speaker, it is not surprising that he was elected a member of the Legislature of the state. For a number of years he was editor of an Iowa weekly newspaper and while in charge of this paper he made it a source of power for the Republican party in that community. After moving to Sibley he was elected mayor and served in that important office for three years. He has also served as justice of the peace in this county, as well as county attorney.

Mr. Glover was married to Mary Frances Upton, who died May 23, 1886, leaving one son, Lyn Fisher Glover, who is now living in Sibley. Mr. Glover has always been a stanch supporter of the Republican party and has been one of the leaders in Republican politics in Iowa for many years. H£ is frequently called into campaigns and has given political and patriotic speeches throughout this section of the state. He is a man of eloquence and has a flow of language which charms his hearers. In 1908 he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church, and since that time has served as a supply minister in Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota. He is now living in Sibley, where he is engaged as an attorney and public speaker. For many years he was pension attorney, and because of the fact that he served in the war his services were in great demand by the old soldiers' who were seeking pensions. He is a man of strong and upright character and an honorable and useful citizen, and a man who has been a power for good in this county. He is also a man of lofty attainment and ripe judgment and has been eminently successful as a lawyer. He is probably wider known over the state of Iowa, than any other of the citizens of this county and it may be assumed that he has always so conducted himself as to reflect honor upon his county.

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