Mrs. D. S. Glidden Biography


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GLIDDEN, MRS. D. S., whose maiden name was Josephine Martin, was born in 
Clarendon, Orleans county, New York.  She was educated in the public schools, 
and took a two years course at a school for young ladies at Rochester.  She 
was married June 22, 1871, and came with her husband to Montour, Iowa, and 
resided there until they moved to Sioux Falls.  Although her name appears 
incidentally elsewhere in this work in connection with the literary and 

musical organizations in Sioux Falls, the character of her services to the 
public requires a more extensive notice.  Nearly twenty years ago she became 
interested in the establishment of a public library, and from that time up 
to the present, has labored persistently in this work.  It is the method she 
adopted to accomplish her purpose, and the lesson it teaches, which we wish 
especially to call attention to. The library is now an established institution, 
and through the munificence of one of our citizens, W. H. Lyon, has one of the 
finest buildings in the city for its home.  But, as Kipling would say, "that is 
another story." Mrs. Glidden did not procure large donations, but went at the 
work before her upon the cumulative plan, and from a small beginning gradually 
procured about four thousand well selected books which now belong to the Sioux 
Falls Free Public Library Association. We do not mean to say that she 
accomplished this result alone, but we do mean to affirm that during all this 
time she has been the central figure in the enterprise, and it affords a 
splendid illustration of what might be accomplished in time by the constant, 
well-directed efforts of a person whose heart is in the work. Mrs. Glidden has 
also done much to cultivate and expand the literary tastes and attainments of 
quite a large circle of ladies in Sioux Falls, and this has been accomplished 
with such rare tact and genuine disinterestedness that she is admired and loved 
by all her associates.