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Glover, who was born January n, 1841,
in Nottingham, England. His father,
George Glover, was born in 1815, in Nottingham,
and married Rebecca Wood,
who was born in the same place in 1816.
He was a son of George Glover, and
descended from an ancient English fam-
ily. The surname is derived from a trade,
the word itself of Saxon origin, and at
first spelled Golofore and varied from
time to time until the present form was
established in the fourteenth century.
At that ancient date the family was
seated in the counties of Warwick and
Kent, England, and tradition connects the
first American immigrant with the War-
wickshire family. Robert Glover, a de-
scendant of this family, was burned at the
stake, September 14, 1555, during the per-
secution of the Protestants in the reign
of "Bloody" Mary. He had sons who succeeded
to his estate at Baxterly, Warwickshire.
The family has always been
distinguished for its piety, and bears a
coat-of-arms
:
Arms— Sable, a chevron; ermine between three
crescents, argent.
The English progenitor of the first
American family of the name was Thomas
Glover, who died in Rainhill Parish,
Prescott, Lancashire, England, Decem-
ber 13, 1619. His second and first surviving
son, John Glover, baptized August
12, 1600, in Rainhill, came to Boston,
Massachusetts, where he died February
11, 1653. He left a numerous progeny,
now found in all parts of the United
States.
In 1849 George and Rebecca (Wood)
Glover came to the United States and
settled in Thompsonville, Connecticut.
He was a machinist and found ready
occupation here until his death, about
1885.
George Glover, Jr., son of George and
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Rebecca (Wood) Glover, was born in
1841, in Nottinghamshire, England, and
remained there with his mother and other
children one year after his father had
come to America. He arrived in 1850,
being then nine years of age, and was
subsequently a student in the public
schools of Thompsonville. At an early
age he became associated with his father
in learning the machinist trade, and con-
tinued as such until the outbreak of the
Civil War, when he enlisted for three
years with the Twelfth Connecticut Regiment
of Volunteers. Most of his service
was in Louisianna, where a few months
before the expiration of his term, he was
captured by the enemy and imprisoned at
Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas, where he was
retained for some time after the close of
hostilities. Returning to Connecticut, he
located at Windsor Locks, and was em-
ployed for some time as machinist by the
Medlicoth Company of that place. In
1866, he established a machine shop of
his own, and two years later organized
the Windsor Locks Machine Company,
engaged in the manufacture of paper mill
machinery. With him were associated
Eugene Latham and Edwin Upton, who
was secretary and treasurer of the company
of which Mr. Glover was made pres-
ident. In 1901, he sold out his interest
and has since lived a retired life in Wind-
sor Locks. As evidenced by his military
service, Mr. Glover is a most patriotic
citizen of the Anglo-Saxon country in
which Englishmen so immediately become
at home. A striking proof of the
permanency of the present Anglo-Ameri-
can entente cordiale is the existence of
many thousands who, though like Mr.
Glover of English birth, are intensely
loyal to the country of their adoption, and
are not to be distinguished in any way
from the other Anglo-Saxons of a remoter
immigration. He has endeavored by his