The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-24
DEATH OF BASCoM GLENN.
ms bright AND USEFUL LIFE
CAME TO a SUDDEN END.

n.otb, which Had Been Expected
and Predicted for Twenty-four
uours. Came at 11;30 O'clock.
simple Operation Was Followed
,.v complications That Brought at
,ast the Fatal Result - Funeral
services Last Night-Body Taken
,o Decatur for Interment.
,tr Bascom p. Glenn. principal of the
,.-srson Street School, and one OF the
LET known and most universally liked and
.3,oired educators. in the city, died at
40 n dock yesterday morning. at the Sa-
vannah Hospital.
while the last turn for the worse came
,.,adenlv. the death Of Mr.. Glenn was not
rnexnected. His dying condition was an
roureed in the Morning News of yester-
dav and his friends had been prepared
any for more than twenty-four hours for
the erd. While this preparation served
in some measure to lessen the shock, the
eriet caused by his death was no less
wi5esDread and sincere. All of those with
whom he had been thrown in official and
nersonal contact, the clean and pure man.
hood Of his character and his fine abii-
+,es had caused to admire and like him
warmly.
AT o'clock last night the funeral SER
vices we're conducted at the residence OF
Mrs. Dean Newman. where the body had
been conveyed during the afternoon. The
services we're conducted by Rev. Ed. F.,
Cook. pastor OF Wesley Monumental
Church The pail bearers were Messrs.
ods Ashmore, W. F. Galloway, ]. S.
Sims, P. f. Brown. NJ. NJ Parks and
$. Lucas. At 10 O'Clock the body. ac-
companied by relatives and close friends
of Mr.. Glenn, left on the Central train
for Decatur. This is the home of his
brother, Mr. r. P. Glenn. and the inter
rnent will take place in the cemetery there
at clock this afternoon.
The nature of the mplication of trou-
bles from which Mr.. Glenn suffered has
already been described in the Morn ng
News. Beginning with an opera ton. per-
formed for the purpose of relieving a
slight catarrhal affection, bcdily troubles
followed quick and fast. The first opera
LlOO r. SullSu III COiHpliCdNiltlS lndl nGCe--
STATED others and brought on finally an
affection of the brain, FRI which dea II
resulted.
Mr. Glenn was 81 years old. He was
the son of Rev N. 2. Glenn. Method st
minister, fer many years connected wi
the North Georgia confe ence. and a ne
phew CT State School Commissioner G.
R. Glenn. lie was married four years
ago, his wife survives him, but there are
no children.
Mr.. Glenn was graduated from Emory
College, with high distinction and the
degree of y. B.. in 1922. :jubsequ, ntlv he
pursued graduate studies at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, with the special design
Of fitting himself more thoroughly for his
life work.
lmmJd ately upon leaving college he was
elected superintendent of schools at Wash
ington Ga. and afterwards taught at
Conyers and Dublin. In February, 1900,
he was elected an assistant instructor in
the savannah High School, and in October
Of the same year, was made principal Of
the Anderson Street School, a position
he had filled with satisfaction and credit
to the time of his last illness.
Mr.. Glenn was a model educator Pos
sessing native abilities of a high order
and the true vocation for the work, he
had trained the one and fitted himself 20
follow the other by course of special
and arduous preparation. He was re-
sarded as one Of the most prominent of
the younger educators in the state ana
tor him life held every fine promise OF
recognition and advancement in his pro-
hssion. It is not too much to say of
him that in his death the cause of edu-
elton in Georgia has suffered a real
bss.