The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-10
Chicago Man Who Claims Estate
Of Nancy A. Glover Fails to
Attend Hearing on the Will
FAMILY SECRET TO BE Barred
Glover Claims to Be the.sor Of Second
Wife of the Late Col. Cover. But
Marriage Was Never Heard agssf
of BY Kenosha People

Charles Joseph Glover, the Chicago
man who has filed a protest against
the admission of the will of the late
Nancy A. Glover who was burned to
death here a short time ago, failed to
appear when the case was called for
a hearing in the County Court this
morning, but his Attorney Seth Crews
of Chicag~, was in court and promised
to bring his client here on Saturday
to which date the hearing Of the pro-
bate of the will was adjourned.
The story of Glover and his claim
to rights in the estate of the old Ke-
nosha spinster is rapidly developing
into the most remarkable story ever
told in the y enosha county court and
either Glover is making claim for
something to which he has no title or
his evidence when produced will tell
story Of a Kenosha pioneer which
has been closely hidden for nearly
half century.
Glover the alleged heir to the estate
has made a written statement in
which he sets out what is purported
to be story Of his life, but according
to the statements of the relatives of
Miss Glover who have lived in Keno
sha the story is a colossal falsehood,
or Col. Pe1ig Glover who was an
honored resident of the city for many
years and who was widely known
throughout Wisconsin lived a double
life and died without the fact ever
he coming known to the immediate
members of his family. Charles Jo-
seph Glover claims that he is the son
of Col. James Pelig Glover and Miss
Fannie Mccarthy to whom the col
onel was married in Manitowoc thirty
years after the death Of his first wife.
In his statement the Chicago man
claims that his father, Col. Glover.
died in Manitowoc and that his
mother also died there. He alleges
that the couple lived tog ether for
years.
In the meantime the daughter of.
Col. Pelig Glover, father Of Miss.
Nancy Glover, has sent to the execut-,
or Of the estate full list of the menu
bers Of the Glover family and no men,
toni is made of Mrs. Fannie Mccarthy
Glover or of the Chicago man. Col.
Pelig Glover the father of the Keno.
.sha Glovers lived in Kenosha for some
years before his death and was well
known to many of the pioneers of the
city. These people have been inter
viewed and none Of them ever heard
of the second marriage alleged by the
Chicago man. a
It's also statedFhat the Col. Glover
who died in Kenosha was Col. Pelig
Glover and not Col. James Pe1ig
Glover. 1t is claimed by the attorney
of the Chicago man and he asserts.
that the fact of the marriage of Cole
Glover and Miss Mccarthy was well
known to many people IL Manitowoc
and that large mum her Of witnesses
can be brought to testify to the fact.
The alleged second Mrs. Glover, ac-
cording to the statement of the
daughter of the Colonel, was never
at her fathers house. a
Ii is just possible that there we're.
two Col. Giovers with names approxi
mately the same and that for this
reason the Chicago man has assumed
that he is a son Of Col. Glover who
was the father of the Kenosha man
and woman. The mix up in the case
is such as to test the ability of several
lawyers to unravel it and it is expected
that the hearing on Saturday if
Charles J. Glover puts in an appear
ance, will be decidedly interesting
one.