BIOGRAPHY: John GLASGOW, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 623.

  JOHN GLASGOW, McVeytown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born near Lick Ridge, 
Henderson township, Huntingdon county, Pa.  The grandfather of Mr. Glasgow was a 
native of Scotland, and came to America some time prior to the beginning of the 
present century.  Among his children were:  Taylor, who married and settled near 
Bellewood, in that part of Huntingdon county which is now Blair county, Pa.;  
James, married and settled near his brother Taylor;  John, married and settled 
near Evansburg, Cambria county, Pa.;  Richard, married and settled near Glen 
Hope, Clearfield county,Pa.;  Samuel, married and settled near Three Springs, in 
Huntingdon county, Pa.;  Jane;  and Matthew.  Matthew Glasgow, father of John 
Glasgow, was born and reared in Huntingdon county, Pa.  He was educated in the 
public school, and became a millwright;  he followed that business for a number 
of years throughout the central part of the State.  In 1833 he bought the 
Copeland mills near Newton Hamilton, Pa., and remained there until 1847, when he 
removed to Illinois.  A few years later he decided to return to his native 
State, but was taken sick on his way back and died at Pittsburg, Pa., in May, 
1849, aged sixty-two years.  In religious belief and association he was a 
Baptist.  Mr. Glasgow was married to Sarah Drake, and their children are:  
James, married Catherine Copeland;  Eveline (Mrs. James Corbett);  Rebecca (Mrs. 
John Laughlin);  Margaret (Mrs. James Kimball);  Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Laughlin);  
Samuel, died in infancy;  Jane, also died in infancy;  and John.  Mrs. Sarah 
Glasgow died in 1828.  Mr. Glasgow married secondly Ruth Corbin;  the children 
of this marriage are:  Richard, a resident of California since 1849;  Molly 
(Mrs. Amond Greenland);  Martin Van Buren, of Illinois;  Jennie (Mrs. Oliver 
Swope).
  John Glasgow was reared in Mifflin county, Pa., attended select schools, and 
learned the miller's trade with his father near Newton Hamilton, Pa.  At his 
majority, in 1848, he undertook the management of the old Atkinson mills in 
Wayne township, where he was engaged in milling and manufacturing lumber for 
about seventeen years.  In 1865 he opened a store near Atkinsons Mills and 
conducted a successful  mercantile business for eighteen years.  Later he was 
for a few years engaged in farming, but resumed mercantile business in 1889 at 
McVeytown, in which he has since been continuously and successfully engaged.  
Mr. Glasgow is an ardent Democrat;  he has served in various township offices.
  Mr. Glasgow was married July 9, 1846, to Elmira Van Dyke, daughter of 
Archibald and Mary (Linebaugh) Van Dyke.  Their children are:  Annie (Mrs. 
William V. Horning), has children, Nellie, Gertrude, Mary Pearly and Ruth;  and 
William Birchfield, associated with his father in the store, married Effie R. 
Norton, and has one child, John Russel.  Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow are members of the 
Presbyterian church at McVeytown.