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JOHN R. GLASSCOCK, farmer, P. O. Aberdeen, was born in Kentucky in 1817, and is a son of Gregory and Elizabeth (White) Glasscock, natives of Virginia, who settled in this township in 1817, and followed farming ten years, after which the father bought cattle and drove them to Eastern markets for six years; he then settled in Highland County, Ohio, where he died in 1851. By his first wife he had five children, viz.: Mary A., Samuel H., James W., John R. and Valentine. By his second wife (Susan Fristo) he had two children, viz.: Israel and Alanda. Mr. Glasscock, Sr. was a soldier in the war of 1812. His first wife died in 1827. Our subject was married in 1840 to Mary J., the daughter of Caleb and Matilda (Ross) Atherton. To them have been born eleven children, four of whom are living, viz.: Elizabeth F., Caleb A., Milton B. and Thomas H. Caleb enlisted, in 861, in the Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was veteranized in 1864, and discharged in 1865. Mr. Glasscock owns sixty acres of land; he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church, to which they have belonged many years.