Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel Glenn and Margaret Chinelsie Christley




Husband Samuel Glenn 1 2

            AKA: Foster 3
           Born: 1 Jun 1830 - Clay Twp, Butler Co, PA 4
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         Father: John Glenn (Abt 1792-1874) 4 5 6
         Mother: Dorcas McElvain (      -      ) 4 5


       Marriage: 13 Mar 1872 4



Wife Margaret Chinelsie Christley 1 7 8

           Born: Abt 1841
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           Died: 26 Oct 1892 4
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         Father: John Christley (1797-1872) 7 9 10
         Mother: Elizabeth Smith (      -      ) 10 11




Children
1 F Florence E. Glenn 4

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2 M Edwin L. Glenn 4

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3 M Karl D. Glenn 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Glenn


He was the eldest in a family of seven children, and when eighteen years of age commenced teaching school. He taught until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville and Crampton Gap, and was discharged June 1, 1863. He returned home and taught school for six years, was elected county superintendent of schools in 1869, and filled that office three years. He then taught and farmed alternately, until 1883, when he gave up teaching and devoted his whole attention to his farm. The family were members of the Presby­terian church. Politically, he was a Republican and was connected with Dickson Post, G. A. R., of West Sunbury.

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1045, 1212.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 978, 1012.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 414.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1045.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 416.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 572, 978.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 390, 414.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1012.

9 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 934.

10 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1212.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 390.


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