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THOMAS L. GLENN was born February 2, 1847, in Ballard County, Ky., and is the fourth of six children born to Tyre and Barzilla J. (Lawrence) Glenn, natives of North Carolina. The father was a son of James and Jane Glenn, of Scotch-Irish origin, was a farmer, and died about 1850. Thomas L. lived on a farm till about five years old, when, with his mother, he moved to Evansville, Ind., where they lived about four years. Thence they moved to Cairo, Ill., where they remained till 1862. In February of the same year the mother died. Thomas then commenced the struggles of life for himself by selling papers in the Federal Army, making Cairo his headquarters. In February, 1863, he located at Holy Springs, Miss., where he enlisted in Company F, Second Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, under Capt. Nat Lee, Gen. John H. Morgan’s command, and took part in the battles at Wytheville, Va., and Mount Sterling, Ky.; here our subject was wounded in the right shoulder, was captured and was imprisoned at Lexington, Ky. His wound did not heal for four years, and has crippled him for life. In September, 1864, he took the parole oath and returned to Ballard County. He attended school at Providence Church and Milburn till 1866, when he commenced teaching; he next sold goods at Columbus and Milburn when he again entered the schoolroom, taught for three years, and then entered a store as salesman for one year. In 1874, he was elected clerk of Ballard County, and in 1878, was re-elected; in 1883, he was engaged in running a trading car from New Orleans to Cairo, Ill., selling fruits, vegetables, etc., over three divisions of the Illinois Central Railway; in April, 1884, he engaged with Hamilton & Clarke, wholesale notion firm, as traveling salesman. He now owns two farms of 270 acres in Ballard County, about one half improved, also a good house and lot in Blandville. He married L. I. Stephens, of Ballard County, March 17, 1870. She is the daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Wilson) Stephens, natives of Kentucky. This union has been blessed with the birth of four children: Thomas I., Ivy L., Francis J. and Willie T. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of H., K. and L. of H. He cast his first presidential vote for Seymour and Blair, in 1868, and is still a Democrat.