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THOMAS GLEW, blacksmith, Monroeville was born in Pittsburgh, in June, 1837. His parents, John and Ann (Hough) Glew, were born in Derbyshire, England, came to this country about 1833, and, after spending a year in Philadelphia, located in Pittsburgh until 1838, when they settled in Patton township. John was a nailmaker; engaged in general blacksmithing, after he came here, for many years near Moss Side, and then bought a farm, where he died in 1883, aged seventy-two; his widow died three years later, at the age of sixty-nine. In 1862 he joined Col. Allen’s regiment of volunteers, under Capt. A. L. Pierson, now of Pittsburgh, and after serving nine months, and sharing in the battle at Antietam, he was discharged for disability incurred by exposure on that battlefield. When John left the shop he was succeeded by Thomas, who had been his assistant from youth, and who now owns the property, and also a farm of forty-four acres, where he resides and conducts a shop. In 1869 he married Rachel B., daughter of John and Catherine (Leasure) Dougherty, of Irish and Huguenot-Swiss descent. The Leasure family is a prominent one in Westmoreland county. Mr. and Mrs. Glew have five children living: Jennie Luella, Mary Brinton, Millie Wilson and Maggie Beattie (twins) and Thomas Leasure. The two eldest born, Minnie and John, died of scarlet fever at an early age. The family is connected with the Presbyterian Church. John Glew left five sons and six daughters, of whom seven are living, Thomas being the eldest. The others are Sarah (Ramsey), at Homestead; Martha Elizabeth and Annie, unmarried, on the home farm; Jonathan Fulton, nearby; William W., working the farm; Susan (Morrison), the second child, died in Illinois; John died at the age of twenty-two, and George and Mary Ann died in infancy, the last named being the first born.