Evening star., 1936-02-26
GLOVER FUNERAL
THIS AFTERNOON
Representatives of Civic and
Business Circles to
Pay Respects.


roll Glover, venerable banker, who
died at his home here yesterday,
planned to attend his funeral services
today at pm. in st. Adams Church.
Representatives Of banking and
business circles and OF various civic.
educational, art and other organiza-
tions and institutions with which Mr..
Glover had been affiliated were to
render last respects to the 89-year-
old honorary chairman of the board
of the Riggs National Bank. Mr..
Glover also was president emeritus
Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Honorary pallbearers were to be
Larz Anderson, James j. Becker, Gist
Blair, Frederick H. Brooke, William
r. Castle. jr.; Frederic A. Delano,
Randall H. Hagner, George E. Ham
llton. George L. Harrison, Frank
j. Hogan, William D. Hoover, Hill
leary G. Hoskinson, Norman James.
o. H. P. Johnson. C. Powell Min
nigerode, Benjamin Minor, Avon
M. Nevius, Fleming Newbold, Sid
ney F. Taliaferro, Corcoran Thorn,
Justice Willis Van Devanter, George
o. Vass, DR.. William H. Wilmer and
Waddy B. Wood.
Ushers were announced as follows:
Paul Wilstach. David E. Finley, Ar
thur HELEN, DR.. Edmund Ellerson and
Floyd Blair.
The following committee will repre-
| sent the District Bankers Association
at the funeral services: Harry G..
| Meem, president, Washington Loan e.
Trust Co.. Henry H. Mckee, presi-
dent. National Capital Bank; Lanier
P. McLachlen, president, McLachlen
Banking Corp; Howard Moran. vice
president, and Frederick P. H. Siddons,
secretary, American Security g. Trust
Co.; Ord Preston, president, Union
Trust Co., and George L. Starkey,
president. National Bank of Wash
ington.
Bishop to Aid in Rites.
The rites were to be conducted by
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop
of Washington; Very Rev. G. C. F.
Bratenahl, dean of the Washington
Cathedral, the idea of building which
originated with Mr.. Glover: Rev.
DR.. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon Of
the Cathedral, and Rev. DR.. Charles
H. Warner, rector of st. Adams
Church, of which Mr.. Glover long was
member.
Private interment was to take place
Immediately after the services In Oak
Hill Cemetery.
!. The Cathedral. near the place of
the services, stands as a monument
to Mr.. Glover's vision and energy.
The Corcoran Art Gallery owes con-
siderable OF its development to his
active services as trustee, treasurer,
vice president. president and, finally,
president emeritus. American Uni
versity received substantial aid from
him in its early struggle for recogni-
ton.
More than that, Washington's
magnificent park system was created
largely through the persistent, tire
less efforts of the man who has been
called the father of the Rock Greek
and Potomac parkways."
Wife Present at Death.
Mr.. Glover died at 4 am yesterday
at his home, Westover. 430O Massa-
chusetts avenue. At the bedside were
his wife, the former Annie Cunning
ham Poor, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
C. Glover. jr. The son is vice chair
man of the Board Of Directors OF the
Riggs Bank.
Others who survive include a daugh-
ter, Mrs. r. de Marees van Swinderen.
wife of the Netherlands Minister to
London: three grandchildren, Mrs.
Elizabeth van Swinderen Hoyer Mil
lar. whose husband is a secretary to
Anthony Eden, British foreign secre-
tary; Charles Carroll Glover, Sd.
student at st. Marks School, and
Nancy Glover, and two great-grand-
children, Elizabeth Hoyer Millar and
Charles R. Hoyer Millar. A daughter,
Janet, died in childhood. and
{ brother, William L. Glover, died in
1881.
Mr. Glover had been associated with
the Riggs Bank for 70 years-first as
a clerk; then as partner of the old
Riggs g. Co.: as president of the firm
from its reorganization as a national
bank IN 1896 to 1921, and afterward
as honorary chairman of the board.
He conceived the plan Of building
the Washington Cathedral and worked
assiduously to see the dream realized.
Headed Corcoran Art Gallery.
| Mr.. Glover had been a trustee of
the Corcoran Art Gallery since 1887.
He served as its treasurer for 28 years,
later becoming vice president. He
was elected president in 1906 and
served in that capacity until 1888,
when he became president emeritus.
At the time of his death he was the
oldest member of the Board Of
Trustees of the gallery in point Of
service as well as age.
He was the only surviving charter
member of the Washington Board of
Trade and had held important Offices
in many other business and civic
organizations.
Washington lost "its greatest bene-
factor" in Glover's death, in the opin-
ion of Robert v. Fleming, president
of the Riggs National Bank. of which
Mr. Glover was honorary board chair
| man.
Notified of Mr.. Glover's death by
telephone at Miami, Fla, yesterday,
Mr.. Fleming expressed great sor-
row." Mr.. Fleming, bank ofilcials
here said, told them that "the city
of Washington has lost its greatest
benefactor and that while all who
have been privileged to be associated
with MIR. Glover would be deeply
grieved at his passing, they would feel
their lives had been enriched by
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