Glenn, Samuel R.

Born: 1826-01-05 Indiana

Died: 1905-05-15 Greensburg, Indiana

Flourished: 1831 to 1870 Brown County, Illinois

Samuel R. Glenn, merchant, was born in Johnson County, Indiana, and moved to Illinois with his family as a boy, living in Vermilion County in 1828, then relocating to Brown County three years later. Glenn enlisted as a private in Company D of the Fifth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers in 1847 and served in the Mexican War until he mustered out in June of 1848. He was made postmaster of Cooperstown in 1854, and later served several terms as postmaster of Ripley, including between 1856 and 1861 and from 1864 to 1866. Politically, Glenn was a Republican, and he was an organizer of a Republican club in Ripley in 1858 and was a delegate from Brown County at the 1860 Illinois Republican Convention. On the advent of the Civil War, Glenn joined the military, serving as a captain in the Fiftieth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry between September 1861 and June 1862. He returned to service in July 1862 as a major, and was discharged in October of that year. Glenn married Elizabeth Jane Dalton as his first wife in 1849, and he was survived by seven of their thirteen children. In religion he was a member of the Christian Church. Glenn was a Freemason.

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