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CHAS. W. GLOVER, book-keeper and acting as superintendent of the Joplin Zinc Company. Was born in Independence, Mo., Aug. 4, 1854. His parents, J. B. and Charlotte A. (Taylor) Glover, were natives respectively of Kentucky and Virginia. His father was born in Kentucky Dec. 26, 1825, and his mother was born in Virginia, in February, 1833. They are now living in Joplin. Subject is the eldest of a family of seven children. Subject grew to manhood in Jackson county, this state, and received a liberal education in the Independence city schools. When about seventeen years of age he engaged as clerk in his father’s store, continued two years and then went to Kansas City and entered Spaulding’s Commercial College, graduating from that institution in April, 1873. He came at once to Joplin and accepted the position of book-keeper for the Joplin Mining and Smelting Company. In the fall of 1875 he was elected cashier of the Joplin Savings Bank, and held these two positions until 1879. In April of that year he resigned his position and crossed the plains with a saw-mill locating at Cleora, Chaffee county, Col. One year thereafter he engaged in prospecting for silver in the Monarch mining district. He returned to Joplin in April, 1882, and accepted his present position. Although a young man, Mr. Glover possesses extraordinary business qualifications and enjoys the confidence and esteem of those with whom he is engaged, socially and otherwise.