The subject of this biographical sketch is of Scotch descent, and was born August 23, 1815, in Loudoun County, Va. His grandfather, John Glasscock, who died in 1822, at the ripe old age of ninety-three years, was born and reared in the shadow of Glasgow, Scotland; emigrated to this country and served as an officer of a light-horse company in the American Army during the entire period (seven years) of the Revolutionary war. His father, Gregory, and mother, Elizabeth (White), were natives of Loudoun County, Va., the former soldier in the war of 1812, and participating in the battle of Baltimore. In 1818, when the subject of this review was three years old, his parents removed to Fleming County, Ky., and one year later to Brown County, Ohio, where after a short residence, both died. In 1838, James W. making the trip by way of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, came to Carroll County, Ind., locating first in the section of the county subsequently called Monroe Township, whence he removed, in 1865, to Rock Creek Township, living in the latter place to the present time.
His educational advantages were exceedingly limited. At the age of twelve years, he had not received a month’s schooling, and after this age, his entire attendance did not exceed twenty months, four of these being under John B. White, in Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, ex-President U. S. Grant, then seven years old, being a pupil in attendance at the same school.
Mr. Glasscock has married twice – in 1837, to Jane B. Salisbury, in Brown County, Ohio, who died in 1856; and 1857, to Eliza Landens, a former pupil of his, born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1821. The fruits of his former marriage were six children, the two eldest sons being soldier and martyrs in the late war. Thomas H. enlisted first, in the three months service, in the Twentieth Illinois (Zouave) Regiment and subsequently in the three years’ service. At the time of his enlistment, he was attending school at Joliet, Ill. Harvey M. second son was a member of Capt. Gaddis independent company, afterward attached to the Third Indiana Cavalry, Volunteer Regiment.
In religion he, as well as Mrs. Glasscock are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics, he is an ardent Republican, having originally been a member of the Democratic party, but parting company with that organization on the formation of the Republican party. As a member of the party, he has never sought position, but was elected to the office of Commissioner of Carroll County in 1866, and served a fraction over three years. While living in Monroe Township, he served as Trustee three years, about the time of the organization of the township, and at a still later date, five years, and yet still later, on year – in all, nine years in that capacity. In 1839 and 1840, Mr. Glasscock engaged in the avocation of teaching school, and in the early part of his life have privately studied the theory of Mechanics, he worked, as the occasion gave him opportunity, in the business of building houses and barns, but his real occupation in life is and has been that of farming.
Nearing the allotted threescore years and ten, but still hale and vigorous, he is in the strictest sense of the phrase a representative citizen. Temperate and industrious, a friend of education and an encourager of the young, he is declared by those who him best to be a large hearted neighbor and a faithful father and husband.
County Coordinator: Suzy Sprague suzyq.wa@worldnet.att.net