BIO: Asher Gurney Gorman GLENN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 372-373.
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  ASHER GURNEY GORMAN GLENN, an enterprising citizen of Burnside township, where 
he is engaged in agriculture, was born on the old Gorman homestead in this 
township, June 13, 1872.  His father, Daniel Gorman, who was born at Elderton, 
Armstrong county, Pa., settled at an early date at New Washington, Clearfield 
county.  Later he bought land and established the Gorman homestead near Mt. Joy 
church.  He was engaged during his life in lumbering, farming and rafting.  His 
father, the grandfather of our subject, was a tax collector in Indiana county, 
who, while traveling his rounds during a severe winter storm, lost his way and 
was subsequently found frozen to death.  Daniel Gorman died in October, 1885, 
when he was 60 years old.  He was three times married; his first wife being 
Nancy Maria Neff, a daughter of J. B. and Catherine (Barnhart) Neff, and a 
granddaughter of John Neff, a former resident of Howardville, Center county, Pa.  
She was a sister of Gideon D. Neff, a prominent farmer of Burnside township.  Of 
this union were born three children:  William Gorman, who resides in Kansas; 
James L.; and Maria, who is the wife of William Zimmerman.  After the death of 
the mother of these children, Daniel Gorman married Nancy King, a daughter of 
John and Nancy (McCreary) King.  Of this marriage there were six children, of 
whom four are now living - John K., Horace S., Rachel and Asher Gurney.  Daniel 
Gorman was a third time married, his third wife being Elizabeth McGarvey, who is 
still living.  She was the mother of three children - A. M., residing at LaJose, 
Pa.; David and Daniel Gorman of Connecticut.
  Asher G. Gorman was about twenty months old when he was deprived of his mother 
by death and he was then adopted by Daniel and Sarah (King) Glenn of Indiana 
county, Mrs. Glenn being an aunt of his by marriage, or in other words a sister 
of his father's second wife, Nancy King Gorman.  On his adoption by them he took 
the name of Glenn, which he has since retained.  In his youth he attended school 
for the usual period, and is also a graduate of Clark's Commercial College of 
Erie, Pa.  He was early initiated into habits of industry, following both 
agriculture and lumbering.  In 1887 he took up in addition the agricultural 
implement business, becoming a salesman.  In 1907 he bought the old Gorman home, 
the residence being one of the largest and most mansion-like in Burnside 
township and possessing one of the largest fruit orchards.  He is also engaged 
in the breeding of thoroughbred live stock, having shipped to thirteen different 
States.  He is a member of the Grange and has served on the township school 
board.  Politically he has been a Prohibitionist for many years.
  Mr. Glenn was married in 1894 to Lula Stephens, a daughter of David and Bella 
(Dickison) Stephens, and of this union have been born six children, namely:  
Sarah M., now aged thirteen years; Daniel aged eleven; Annabelle, eight; Alice, 
six; David, three; and Ethel, one year.