Glynn, William H.

GLYNN

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 00:20:45

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.694

WILLIAM H. GLYNN
William H. Glynn, the well known cashier of the Cumming Bank at Cumming, Iowa, is a native of this state, his birth occurring in Madison County, on the 27th of December 1873. His parents are Thomas and Bridget (Craby) Glynn, both of whom are natives of Ireland and are now residing upon a farm in Madison County, Iowa. The father was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in October, 1831, and in that country grew to manhood, being twenty years of age when in 1851 he crossed the Atlantic and came to the United States. For about a year and a half he remained in New York and then went to Canada, where he worked on the railroad until 1855, which year witnessed his arrival in Iowa. He first located in Des Moines but in 1862 bought a farm in Madison County, to which he removed four years later and since that time he has made his home there, his time and attention being devoted to agricultural pursuits.
Mrs. Bridget Glynn, the mother of our subject, was also a native of County Mayo, Ireland, born in 1841, and she, too, came to the new world in 1851 with her parents, who spent about two years in Virginia. The family then removed to Montreal, Canada, where they remained until 1855 and in that year became residents of Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Craby died. His wife passed away at the home of Mr. Glynn in Madison County. During the residence of the family in Virginia, Mrs. Glynn saw much of the dark side of slavery and was present at several public auctions of slave children.
Reared under the parental roof, William H. Glynn early became familiar with agricultural pursuits and his early education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by a course in the Highland Park College at Des Moines. After leaving school, he engaged in teaching for seventeen terms in Madison County and in July 1907, came to Cumming, succeeding Frank Stiffler as cashier of the Cumming Bank, owned by Simon Casady & Company, bankers. He has now filled that position for one year and has proved a most capable and popular official, winning the confidence and regard of all with whom he has come in contact. In religious faith he is a Catholic and in politics is an ardent Republican.