New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-30
ELIIAH BOUIDEN GLENN.
August :. 1896.
Tp1n his one hundredth birthday.
Presented by his friends in
Newark

That day was a grea, one for the Old man , bn,
in spite Of lis excemen's he was up at 6 o'clock
the next morning. and ate breakfast IN UNI 20 ac-
company his son Samuel, who was bound ior nome
70 The $50 O'Clock boat.
and /; is no; surprising. When he was born the
thirteen original States. with me addlons OF YER
upon he trial Of republican iorm q FoyeT TgS,
and The Changes have been many since men The az
ferences between Great Britain and ne ! ni'ea
States had n9 been nelly s[ ,5o %n dav w3 ap
prsn,icei 20 a baltimore shopkeeper, real paint
mfrc fdv man nI" in "f the radc xei his paints
The shop where Elijah worked discussed WIN MN
and vi each other the Napoleonic wars ana me
purchase O. Louisiana men .ro an an Gr4, lakes
10 the Canadian border and west OF the ONO RIVER
on Indefinitely into an unknown and ,.,,n ,oa
Elijah was still serving his apprenlceshlp, a Iau
Of sixteen when the war with England broke out
three {e4psv a a, POINT onT seven niles from Rai
more. and then every man or boy that coui1 ne VI
lie helped load the guns for the muskee"rs OF INC
e7th Maryland Regimcnt The british were repns sea,
proved in q different way. After the cxcitement
over II was found thai many OF me ne o,u ,n,To
Later on Mr Glenn enlisted in the regular Army;
one suit Of clothes year. For long time there
Sa WA; m tS4os d ns sn' M Glenn took '
part in the futile attempt Of General Widners army
10 defend Washington against the ravages OF the
British and soon after the war ended
After the Mr. Glenn settled IN New ork anu
hcgan working at the carpenters trade. New-l orh
civ was then little more pretentious than several
tnwns that could now be named west or the MISSES
einni then barely beginning 10 be known. II
Stretched from the Battery TO the BOWcTE' ana
Washington Square outlying suburb MI
Glenn made the trip from Philadelphia by BOAT
nd across New-Jersey by stage. and II seemed TO
bt,n that the entire State OF New-Jersey was one
immense sandhrap. impossible OF cultivation
10 vas married in 1924. Three children two
CONS and n daughter. resulted from the narriase
ono son died twelve years ago. His daughter MAJ,
rnd Tohn + Barcklow. Of the Salvage Corps ana
g. Tho mother Of two children. the constant dengh,
.. tbeir great grandfather His eldest SON
samuel was born in 1892. and In the same year
cholcra broke out. Men who were perfectly wen
In The morning were hurried To their graves az
nipht Elijah Glenn was one or the lev VINO
v,ere attacked by the plague and hved through IL
,rbera has been other serious Illness IN ms ioi
10 Ills habits are simple. He rises AT o'clock
a. tho rnorning and retires about after pouerihs
Found his sons store all day, and enjoying a chat
or game Of cards with the members OF Ms So
ca nod club He uses neither tobacco nor hlroI.
lie ie cheerful all the day long. He belongs 10 no
rhurch or society lie Joined the Masons IN ms
ca XIV arhood but the lodge OF which ne was
rner3her lost Us charter In the i-Masonic agl'a
lion half century ago. - -. 49, W.
~ Tho thirteen surviving veterans OF the war
~ 40 there is only older than Mr.. Glenn
Two others are Of equal age. but ~ seems
hle from Mi Glenns Vieor and ACTIVITY that
hn may live not only TO be the oldest surviving
,o,eran Of the war but may outlive all the others