GLENN, John B.: Died 1911

GLENN

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Date: 9/1/2016 at 21:40:45

DEATH OF JOHN B. GLENN.
Former Bloomfield Banker Dies in Kansas.

John B. Glenn, formerly a banker at Bloomfield, Iowa, died at Wichita, Kan., recently. Glenn's bank at Bloomfield failed during the hard times of 1874, and Glenn went to Kansas and founded the town of Harper, which is now three times as large a place as Bloomfield. He ran a hotel at Harper and did a prosperous business. However he had been indicted at Bloomfield for receiving deposits after his bank was insolvent, as all bankers who fail are, and after many vain attempts on the part of the Davis county officials to extradite him and bring him back for trial, he came back voluntarily and had his trial in Keosauqua and was acquitted. The writer was on different occasions a guest of Mr. Glenn at Harper, and during the trial our office was his headquarters. We do not believe he was guilty of any intentional wrong doing whatever. As quite a reward had been offered for Glenn, a notorious self-styled detective named Frank Lane, who had previously been operating in Clark county, Mo., crawled into Glenn's bedroom window at his hotel one night for the purpose of kidnapping him, By pre-arrangement a young athlete named Marley Kittleman occupied the room that night and let the intruder have the contents of a double barreled shotgun, shattering one arm and shoulder and nearly putting and end to the rascal.

**Handwritten: St. Line Dem. Thurs. June 1911

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 192, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA