Evening star., 1936-02-25
c. c. GLOVER DIES,
ENDING LONG LIFE
OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Prominent Washington Fin
ancier Passes Away at
Age of SO Years.
PROPOSED BUILDING
WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL
Associated With Riggs Bank for
70 Years-Leader in Exten.
sive Park Development.

Charles Carroll Glover, honorary
board chairman of the Riggs National
Bank, originator of the plan for the
Washington Cathedral, and long one of
Washington's outstanding citizens, died
early today at his home, Westover,
1900 Massachusetts, avenue. He was in
his ninetieth year.
The end came at am, with his
wife, son. Charles c. Glover, jr., and
the latter's wife at the bedside. He
had been i'll for long time. When
he took turn for the worse at am,
DR.. B. L. Harden summoned members
of the family to await the obviously
inevitable. Three nurses also were in
attendance.
The venerable banker and civic
leader-known as the father of the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parks"-had
been in retirement for a number of
years. He observed his eighty ninth
birthday anniversary on November "a
last.
Funeral Services Tomorrow.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 3 pm. in st. Adams
Church, in the Cathedral Close, of
which Mr.. Glover was member. As
sisting in the services will be Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal
Bishop of Washington; Very Rev. C.
F. Bratenahl, dean of the Washington
Cathedral; Rev. DR.. Anson Phelps
Stokes. canon of the Washington Ca
thedral, and Rev. DR.. Charles H.
Warner rector of st. Adams Church.
Interment will be at Oak Hill Gene
terry and will be conducted in private.
Mr.. Glover had been affiliated with
the Riggs Bank for 10 years. He
became its first president upon its
reorganization into a national bank
in 1896, serving in that post for a
quarter of a century. He was the
only surviving charter member Of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Conceiving the idea of a great
national Episcopal Cathedral in
Washington, he called a meeting at
his former home at 20 Lafayette
Square at which first plans were laid
for the Washington Cathedral at
Mount Saint Alban. He had been a
trustee of the Cathedral Foundation
since its inception.
Through his long association with
w. w. Corcoran, Mr.. Glover became
trustee OF the Corcoran Gallery
Of Art and he served for many years
as president, and afterward as presi-
dent emeritus. His close personal
friendship with the late Senator w.
A. Clark of Montana is believed to
have played a large part in the gift
to the Corcoran Gallery of the ia
nous Clark collection and the build
ing in which it is housed.
He retained until his death his seat
on the Washington Stock Exchange,
of which he was one of the first men,
bers. He had not been active on the
exchange for years, however.
Following a brief trading session,
the Washington Stock Exchange ad-
journed today out of respect to the
memory of MIR. Glover.
Family Prominent.
The Glover family long had been
prominent in the District of Colum-
bia, Mr.. Glover's grandfather, Charles
Glover. came here about 1893 from
what is now Carroll County, Md, en-
gaging in the practice of law here
and acquiring extensive realty hold
ings. The grandfather was active in
municipal affairs, serving several
terms as councilman and alderman
under the old form of government.
During the War of 1872 he was with
Col. Brent's command when WASH
ington was captured by the British.
Mr. Glover's father was born in
the District of Columbia, but moved
to Macon County, N. c., where he
married Caroline Piercy. Charles
Carroll Glover was born on Macon
County farm November "a, 1846. His
father died when the son was 4 years
old, and the boy came to Washing
ton to live with his grandmother and
obtain an education. He attended
Rittenhouse Academy.
incidentally, another Riggs execu-
tive, William j. Flather, vice presi-
dent of the bank and long a friend of
Glover. was reported in critical con-
(see GLOVER, Page A-5)