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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Saline 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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H. S. Glenn, a well-known merchant and farmer of Benton, was born in Franklin County, Ga., September 30, 1836, and is the son of Samuel and Eliza (Bennett) Glenn, natives of Georgia and South Carolina. Samuel Glenn was a farmer and moved from Franklin County, Ga., to Lumpkin (now Dawson) County about the year 1837, where he remained until 1852. He then came to Arkansas and located on a farm in Conway (now Faulkner) County, twelve miles north of Conway, settling a place in the woods, and making a home, where he is still living at the age of seventy-eight years. He held the office of justice of the peace both in Georgia and Arkansas, and with his wife and family was a member of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Glenn died in 1858, having borne thirteen children, eight of whom are living: James, Robert, S. H., Elizabeth, Lydia, Andrew, Eliza and Solomon Q. H. S. Glenn was reared to farm life and educated in the common schools of Georgia, accepting every opportunity that presented itself, for the school facilities were very limited at that time. He was ambitious to begin life for himself, and, commencing at an early age to work, engaged in farming for some time. In 1859 he was married to Miss Cynthia Allen, a daughter of William Allen, one of the first settlers of Saline County. Mrs. Glenn only lived a few years after her marriage, and Mr. Glenn chose for his second wife Miss Winnie Julian, a native of Georgia and a daughter of Rezin Julian, a farmer who came to Arkansas in 1850. To this union four children have been born, all of whom are living: Leoria (born October 6, 1867, and the wife of J. R. Donnell, a druggist, living at Greenbrier, Ark.), Samma A. (born August 10, 1870), James H. (born July 25, 1873), and Janna (born April 13, 1876). Mrs. (Julian) Glenn died in Benton, Ark., October 10, 1878. She was a loving wife and mother, and a very great favorite among her wide circle of friends. In 1880 Mr. Glenn married Miss Marthia Lucus, a native of Alabama, born in 1848. One child is the result of this union, Mary Eveline, born August 20, 1882. Mr. Glenn enlisted in the Fourth Arkansas Cavalry in 1861, but on account of his wife’s sickness did not go with the command. Later on he enlisted for the Trans-Mississippi army, but being wrecked on the White River returned home again. In the same year (1862) he joined Fagan’s regiment at Bellefonte, Ark., and was in the battles of Back Bone Mountain, fight of Poison Springs (Mark’s Mills), where he was wounded by gunshot and laid off to recruit for one month. He was in a great many skirmishes, also with Price on his raid through Missouri, and finally was paroled at Camden, Ark., in June, 1865. At the close of the war Mr. Glenn resumed the occupation of farming in Saline County until 1878, when he came to Benton and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1883 he moved to Faulkner County (Greenbrier), selling goods at that place till 1886, when he returned and conducted a general mercantile business alone till October 25, 1888, then entering into partnership with W. A. Bell. The firm since that time has been Glenn & Bell, a concern well and favorably known throughout the country. A general stock of merchandise of all kinds is carried, including hardware and fanning implements of every description, and such as meets the needs of the surrounding region. Mr. Glenn is a member of Benton Lodge No. 34, A. F. & A. M., also of Benton Lodge No. 1319, K. of H., and with his wife and family is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he is deacon. In addition to his mercantile business he has two farms, one of 135 acres near Benton, sixty-five of which are cultivated, and another of 110 acres situated on Hurricane Creek. Forty acres of this farm are cultivated, and the two together will average with most of the farms in the county. Mr. Glenn is one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the county, and is respected and esteemed by the entire community.

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This family biography is one of 100 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Saline County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Saline County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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