The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-04-11
DEATH OF COL. w. II. GLENN.
A Stainless Christian, a Noble Patriot
and an HOnOred Citizen Gone.

Come when and where it may, there's
something awful in death. But when
it strikes down those we revere and love
we stand in it's hushed presence dumb
with awe and sorrow. Words seem idle
and sounds but mock the wounded depth
Of feeling.
Such was the universal sentiment,
when, on last Friday morning the start.
ling intelligence passed from lip to lip
and heart to heart that Col. Glenn was
dead. Few Of our people knew that he
had been in serious danger. Only the
Monday before, he had acted as one Of
the judges of election, and had greeted
his countless friends with his usual
hearty good cheer.
But he knew, and his most intimate
friends knew, that his time on earth
was short. He was suffering from an
organic disease of the heart, and had in
sisted on frank statement of his con-
dition. His physician could only as
sure him of short lease of life, at the
best, and warned him that death might
come at any moment.
Col. Glenn was not afraid of death.
He talked of it calmly, almost serenely.
He felt no alarm, and expressed himself
as ready at any moment.
Those who have known him for the
past few years are aware of his deep
troubles, whose glvom only brought out
more brightly the lustre of his grand
Christian character. When, through nc
fault of his own, the accommodations Of
busy life were placed in jeopardy, and
many another man would have saved
all he could, Col. Glenn freely gave ur
everything he had. If an honest man il
the noblest work of God, then tn ere's nj
human soul in all the universe stands
closer to the eternal throne.
Shortly after o'clock, Friday morn
ing, Mrs. Glenn noticed the Colonel wal
breathing with great difficulty. She en-
deavored to rouse him, but he had al
ready passed into unconsciousness. Hi
physician, DIR. w. w. Glenn, was hastily
summoned. Life was extinct before hi
arrival.
Col. Glenn was a son of Samuel anC
Jane B. Glenn. He was born neal
Staunton, in Rockingham county, Via.
December II, 1924. His parents moyet
to Gallia county, this State, IN 1929
From there they came to Highland
county and occupied farm near thi
city, in 1882. On this farm he was raise'
to manhood's estate, receiving his edu
cation in the common schools and tn,
Hillsboro Acadamy. OF practical an
industrious turn, he became a maste
stone and brick mason. For two year
| in early life, he taught school. For to-
years he served the now B. & o. S. "
system as railroad and express agent i
this city, in which capacity his pleasar
address and thorough business qualitie
made fast friends of all with whom b
came in contact. This position he hel
until 1862, when he recruited Go. A.,
the S9th o. V. l., and went to the frol
; as its commander. He was wonderful
J modest, and never sought advancement
But, during his first year of service, l
was almost compelled to accept prom
tions by which he became, successive
Major and Lieut.. Col. of the regimen
After the battle of Murfreesboro, tt
s9th was assigned to the army of Il
Cumberland. With the bulk of his re
iment, he was captured at Chickamaug
in 1868. For eleven months he was
prisoner OF war, suffering the horrors
Libby and Macon for nine months, VIII
y he was selected as one OF the fifty Uni
officers who were to be taken to Charlt
y ton by the Confederates and placed u
L der the fire of Gilmore's guns, with
hope of abating the seige. 1t will
n remembered that the Federal autho
: ties retaliated by putting like numt
d of Confederate officers in the midst
It Gilmore's forces. This move led te
is parley and exchange, through whi
q Col. Glenn was released. He imme
% ately returned, by way of New Yc
G, City and home, to Atlanta, where, j,
10 one year from the date of his captu
d he took command of the regiment, a
d led it through Sherman's famous ma,
'e to the sea. In battle he was the p
'. sonifcation of cool and daring coura
,s In camp and on the march he wa
loving, fatherly, brotherly soul to eve
soldier.
;" After the grand review at Washi
ton, he was mustered out at Camp D
), nison, in 1865.
=. After returning from the war, {
:, :, Glenn settled down to humble, qu
- life as manufacturer of brick an
- building contractor. But the peo
70 who knew him so we'll called him fir
20 his retirement, and, in 1872, elected L