SAMUEL P. GLASGOW was born in Shelby County, Ohio, December 17, 1842, and is the sixth in the family born to Arthur and Eliza Glasgow. He was reared a farmer, and in the spring of 1864 enlisted in Company K, One Hundred, and Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under the call for 100-day men. He was discharged in the fall of l864. and on his return assumed full charge of the home farm, which he conducted until the fall of 1870, when he came to this township, locating on Section 19, where he now owns a highly improved farm of 235 acres. He was married, October 15, 1867, to Jennie E., daughter of Abraham and Anna Stipp, of Shelby County, Ohio, and born May 20, 1846. To this union have been born four children- Maggie A., Wilda M., an infant who died unnamed, and James S. Mr. Glasgow is a Republican in politics, and always takes a leading part in home enterprises. He began life a poor man, but is now one of the well-to-do farmers of the township.

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