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The Glasgow Family of St. Louis County, Missouri

8 Glasgows in the county histories, born 1784–1845 · 2 linked generations

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James Glasgowborn 1784
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7 people

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William Henry Glasgowborn 1822
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Generation 1

William Henry Glasgow

born 1822

Glasgow, William Henry, merchant and manufacturer, was born February 19, 1822, at Belleville, Illinois, son of William and Sarah (Mitchell) Glasgow. His father was a native of the State of Delaware, who came to St. Louis in 1816, and for many years thereafter was engaged in merchandising in this ee тош Belleville, Illinois, and at the ns ae я А Missouri.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899) · Read the full biography

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William Glasgow

born 1845

Child of William Henry Glasgow

Glasgow, William Carr, physician, was born January 16, 1845, in St. Louis, son of William Glasgow, Jr., whose ancestors immigrated from Scotland to the United States in the early part of the eighteenth century, and settled at Christiana, in the State of Delaware.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899)

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William Glasgow

Glasgow, William, Jr., who may be said to have been the founder of one of the great industries of Missouri, was born in Christiana, Delaware, July 4, 1813. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Missouri and were among the earliest settlers who came from the Eastern States to what was then a Territory.

From Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (1901)

Edward James Glasgow

Glasgow, Edward James, Jr., merchant, was born in St. Louis, March 27, 1853. After receiving thorough educational training which was completed at Washington University, he went South and for some years lived on a sugar plantation in Louisiana. Returning to St. Louis, he became associated with his father in the wholesale grocery trade, in which he continued until 1880.

From Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (1901)

Edward J. Glasgow

Glasgow, Edward James, Jr, merchant, was born in St. Louis March .27, 1853, son of William H. and Mary Francis (Wright) Glasgow. Both his father and his grandfather Glasgow were St. Louis merchants, and his grandfather was a. pioneer among those who came from the Eastern States to engage in merchandising in this city,.he having come here in the year 1816.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899)

William Glasgow

Glasgow, William, Jr, who may be said to have been the founder of one of the great industries of Missouri, was born in Christiana, in the State of Delaware, July 4, 1813. son of James and Ann Ross Glasgow. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Missouri and were among the earliest settlers who came from the Eastern States to what was then a Territory.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899)

James Glasgow

born 1784

Glasgow, James, was born at Christiana Bridge, Delaware, in 1784. He was the elder of the two sons of James and his wife, Eleanor Aiken Stuart. His grandparents, James and Ann Glasgow, had emigrated on Scotland in the earlier part of the Е мее century, and settled in Delaware.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899)

Edward J. Glasgow

born 1820

Glasgow, Edward James, was born in Belleville, Illinois, June 7, 1820, son of William and Sarah (Mitchell) Glasgow, the first named a native of Delaware and the last named, of Virginia. His maternal grandfather, Edward Mitchell, and his two brothers served in Colonel William Campbell's regiment of Virginia riflemen during the Revolutionary War.

From Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899) · Read the full biography

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