My Genealogy Hound

T. F. Glasgow. There is in the development of every successful life a principle which is a lesson to every man following in its footsteps — a lesson leading to higher and more honorable position than the ordinary. Let a man be industriously ambitious, and honorable in his ambitions, and he will rise whether having the prestige of family or the obscurity of poverty. We are led to these reflections by a study of the life of the subject of this sketch, Mr. T. F. Glasgow, who was born in Atlanta, Ga., in 1856. His father, A. J. Glasgow, left the State of Georgia, just prior to Gen. Sherman’s invasion in 1863, and went to the eastern part of Texas, near Mt. Vernon, where he died shortly afterward, leaving his wife with a family of three children. T. F. Glasgow was the eldest of these children, and was about eight years of age at the time of his father’s death. His mother was married again, and moved to Lake County, West Tenn., where she died in 1869. The little brother then died, and T. F. and his sister Mina, were the only ones left. At the age of twelve years the former hired out, worked a year, and when in his thirteenth year took a farm on shares, hired three boys and raised about 4,000 bushels of corn. The next year he rented land, raising a crop, and this he continued the following year, making enough money to send his sister to school at Memphis. She was married at the age of fifteen to Mr. G. W. Marr, Jr., and is now living in the northern part of the Lone Star State. In 1873 Mr. Glasgow accepted a position with Capt. Nail, who was then running a steam ferry at Point Pleasant, and acted as pilot and collector until in June, 1874. He then came to Mississippi County, Ark., and engaged with Mr. J. W. Williams, with whom he remained about eighteen months, after which he took a trip to Texas to visit his sister. He remained with her about eighteen months, and then received a letter from Mr. Williams requesting him to return, which he did in about 1876, and remained with that gentleman as overseer until 1882. One year later he rented about 100 acres of land from the above mentioned gentleman, and worked at agricultural pursuits for one year, after which he went to Pecan Point, where he worked for R. W. Friend until July 1, 1884. In 1886 he rented a farm of W. P. Hale, just west of Osceola, where he has continued since, and is now in partnership with Mr. N. L. Avery, under the firm name of Glasgow & Avery. They have over 500 acres of cotton, and Mr. Glasgow has some of the best crops in the county, having picked ten acres of cotton that averaged one and a fourth bales to the acre. They employ from forty to 150 hands, and have about 100 people on the place the principal part of the time. The firm has recently bought 825 acres of land on Sandy Bayou, of which they expect to open up 100 acres this fall. Mr. Glasgow has onions as large as breakfast plates, and has shipped 400 barrels of potatoes from six acres of land, leaving fully one-third of them for the hands. He was married on the 20th of May, 1888, to Miss Gertrude Ashburn, a native of Mississippi County, and the daughter of George Ashburn who came to Mississippi County, Ark., with his father when a boy (1829). Mr. Glasgow is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 27, Osceola.