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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Grant County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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William H. Glover, a prominent miller and at one time a resident of Tennessee, was born in Jefferson County, of that State, October 20, 1836, and is the son of D. L. and Perlina Glover, of Ohio and Tennessee, respectively. D. L. Glover went to this State when a young man, and there married his second cousin, Miss Perlina Glover. He was a mechanic, machinist and carpenter, and also did some contracting. He moved from Jefferson to Hamilton County, and resided there a number of years; thence to Arkansas, and located in what is now Grant County. Here he made his home until his death, December 19, 1885, his wife having died some years previous. William H. Glover grew to manhood in Hamilton County, Tenn. Coming to Arkansas with his father’s family in 1855, he worked for him, and after reaching his majority settled on a farm in DeKalb Township, and remained here until he enlisted in the Confederate service in 1864 with the Eleventh Arkansas Regiment. He served for one year, then was sent home on a furlough, and building a large mill engaged in the grist-mill business, also ran a steam thresher. After a short time he moved to the place where he now resides. This he has greatly improved, building good barns, sheds, etc., and of the 420 acres which he owns seventy-five are under cultivation. A good carpenter shop is the secret of the excellent condition of the house and all the buildings. He has a fine orchard of peach and apple trees, including some fine varieties of pear and plum. Mr. Glover’s first wife was Palina Harper, a Kentuckian by birth. They were married in 1858, and at her death in 1863 left two little children to mourn her loss: S. H. and Palina. Margaret C. Gremmet, a widow and daughter of John Crowson, a native of Alabama, became his second wife in 1865. Seven children are living by this last marriage: Rev. S. H. (a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church), Perlina (wife of Dr. L. Baldwin, in Pulaski County, of the first marriage), Robert W. David, John N., William H., Gertrude and Isaac, and two children deceased, born of the present wife. Mrs. Glover has one daughter by her former marriage, Eliza J. (wife of John Swaford, of Texas.) Mr. and Mrs. Glover are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he officiating as steward of the same, and is counted among the members of Sheridan Lodge of the A. F. & A. M.

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This family biography is one of 68 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Grant County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Grant County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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