James Glover

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Husband James Glover ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Glover 3
           Born: Abt 1753 - Essex Co, NJ
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           Died: Sep 1844 4
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Children

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1 F Nancy Glover ⁵

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         Spouse: Barnet Gilliland (      -      ) 6

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2 F Mary Glover ²

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           Died: Abt 1860 - Erie Co, PA
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         Spouse: Rev. Daniel McLean (1771-1855) 7 8 9 10
           Marr: 1804 2

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General Notes: Husband - James Glover

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He was an early settler of Forward Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, settling there about 1796.

He was of Holland Dutch descent and was born in Essex County, New Jersey, where he lived until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. At that time, being of suitable age, and patriotically disposed, he enlisted in the colonial army. He served his first term of duty in the New Jersey line, and, on its expiration, enlisted in the Pennsylvania line, the expiration of his former term of service finding him in this state. He served until the close of the war; was at the battle of Princeton, at Germantown, with Washington crossing the Delaware, and was one of the soldiers who passed the memorable and terrible winter at Valley Forge. He was a very skillful blacksmith, and was engaged much of the time as an armorer. His pure patriotism was attested by the fact that he was among those who steadfastly refused to draw pay from the government for services rendered. After the close of the war, he went with his wife to Pittsburgh, and there followed his trade. His shop was on Diamond alley, between Market and Wood streets. After a few years, he purchased a farm on the north side of the Allegheny River, and took up his residence on it. This farm was later in the heart of Allegheny City, and some of the finest buildings of the busy town would stand on the ground where he followed agricultural pursuits. He lived to see the city built up, but realized very little from it pecuniarily. Shortly after the close of the war of 1812, he leased the farm in perpetuity for $75 per year, and that amount was long received annually by some of his heirs, one city lot paying the rental. This lease of Glover's, and one or two others, operated to bring about prohibitory legislation in the state of Pennsylvania, so that leasing in perpetuity became an impossibility. Mr. Glover died on the place where he settled, in Adams Township, aged ninety-one years. [HBC 1883, 28]

The first white man who is positively known to have built a habitation within the present limits of Butler County, Pennsylvania, was James Glover. He was a sturdy character, a blacksmith, and a Revolutionary soldier, who had, after the close of the great struggle for independence, found his way to Pittsburgh, where he had located and followed his trade. He was fond of hunting, and he relieved the monotony of labor in his little shop by making long expeditions into the wilderness in search of the larger varieties of game and wild animals, such as deer and bear, which at that time abounded. In one of these hunting tours, he entered the region now known as Butler County, then an unbroken forest, and as wild a solitude as could be found in Western Pennsylvania. He discovered a deer lick in what is now Adams Township, and, in the fall of 1792, he built a cabin near it, which he continued to occupy, though with some intermissions, until the settlement of the country began, a few years later. His object was almost solely that of hunting. He saw frequently as many as forty deer come at a time to the lick, and no doubt this solitary pioneer sportsman gloried in the acquisition of many trophies of his skill as a marksman. He was never molested or annoyed by the Indians, and passed as peaceful and pleasant a life in his lonely quarters as was possible. In 1795, he cleared a little land around his primitive hunting lodge, and, in 1796, entered 400 acres of land (including the farms later owned by Samuel J. Marshall and the heirs of William H. Gilleland), and built a log cabin, which was more substantial than the first, and intended to be a permanent habitation. He was obliged to go fourteen miles toward Pittsburgh to get neighbors to assist him in building. [HBC 1883, 28]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 28, 234.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 997.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 513.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 28.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 234.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 194, 197.

7 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 996.

8 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 268.

9 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 790.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1015.