Franklin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Glover, Elijah December 5 1871
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Ohio State Journal, December 7, 1871
The Daily Ohio State Journal, Vol. XXXII, No. 490; Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, 
Dec. 7, 1871, Page 2, Column 6 & 7.

Obituary

Sketch of the Life of an Old Citizen of Columbus

Elijah Glover was born in the City of Boston, Mass, January, 1799, and 
departed this life Dec. 5, 1871, in the 73d year of his age.  In the 14th year 
of his age, and while the war of 1812 was still in progress, he immigrated 
into Ohio and settled upon the farm where he ended his days.  The first few 
years of his life were devoted to the hardy toils of the pioneer.  He bore his 
first part and last in making the great State Ohio what it is, the third state 
in the national constellation.

In the 17th year of his age he entered the office of Olmsted & Smith, an 
apprentice to the printing business.  To this vocation he gave the energies of 
a life of industry, honesty and integrity.  As in his early life his strong 
hand had felled the forest oak and subdued the untilled soils of nature, 
making the "wilderness and the solitary places glad for them," so in after 
years he aided by heart and brain work in shaping the intellectual, moral and 
political destinies of the Great West.

Interested in all that conduced to the good and safety of society, and having 
the martial spirit stirred within him by the war of 1812, we find him 
subsequently at the head of a military organization known as the "Scioto 
Guards," and when the war of rebellion broke out nothing but his age and 
infirmity kept him from the field.  Being a warm friend of the bondman, he was 
especially desirous of raising a regiment of colored troops, always expressing 
his willingness to die for his country.

For years he was also at the head of the Independent fire company of this 
city, and did much to make that organization efficient.

In the year 1841 Mr. Glover began the publication of the Ohio Tribune, a paper 
devoted to the interest of the old Whig party.  For eight years he continued 
its publication, and then became associated with Mr. Swan in its publication.  
He subsequently (in 1849) retired from the office of the Tribune, being, says 
the historian of Franklin county, too honest and independent for the 
editorship of a political paper.

About the year 1855 Mr. G. retired from public life to the quietude of his 
farm, where, nearly sixty years ago, he settled, when yet the scream of the 
panther, the howl of the wolf and the whoop of the red man were heard in the 
forest of Ohio.

In the 24th year of his age he was united in marriage to Miss Brown.  She not 
living very long, he was in 1839 married to Miss Scherm, who still lingers 
upon these shores, yet not without the sweetest consolidation in this dark 
hour of trial.

Born of puritan parents and in the puritan city of Boston, we can well imagine 
what were the advantages and instructions of the young Mr. Glover.  We doubt 
not that the foundation of his strict integrity, his untiring industry, his 
moral worth and the simplicity of his whole life was laid (wh?)ere the boy of 
thirteen sought his home and fortune in the wilds of the then distant West.  
His public confession of Christ dates back to February, 1831, when S.A. 
Morris, now senior Bishop of the M.E. Church, was stationed at Town Street in 
this city.  Having found peace in believing, Mr. Glover united with the M.E. 
Church, of which he continued an exemplary member till called from labor to 
repose.

The writer of this sketch was with him frequently through his last illness, 
and was with him when he fell asleep.  His faith was strong, his hope 
steadfast, and his consciousness of a fitness for heaven through grace was 
abiding.  When he went down into the valley we asked him if Christ was his 
light and support, and he responded, yes.  We inquired, do you feel fully 
(assured?) that you will be saved, and he responded, "oh yes, no doubt of 
it."  A few moments before his death he took an affectionate leave of his 
family and stricken wife, to whom he gave the assurance that he would soon be 
at home with the saints on high.  In this frame of mind, and with reason "full 
orbed," at fifteen minutes past one o'clock, on the fifth inst., Elijah Glover 
departed this life, as an old man and full of years, and was gathered unto his 
fathers.

Mr. Glover is represented by those who knew him best as being a man of 
untiring industry, sterling integrity, rare upright(n?)ess, and of the most 
scrupulous honesty.  His temperament was mild, his judgment was sound, his 
prognostication of political events remarkable.  Among strangers he was 
reticent, among friends he was genial and communicative.  Prudent and careful 
of the feelings of others, and always engaged in something for his own others 
prosperity, he gained many friends, and had but few if any enemies.  Said one 
to the writer of this, “I have known Mr. G. for more than 30 years and never 
knew him to exhibit anger or mutter a single word that would not bear the 
severest test of Christian scrutiny."  With such a record his end was as might 
be expected, peace.





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