Glenn, Robert - Rev.

REVEREND ROBERT GLENN was born on the 22nd of March, 1802, in Wolf Creek township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, to which place his father, Samuel Glenn, had removed from York county prior to the year 1800. Graduating from Jefferson. College in 1828 he entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, and on the 2nd of February, 1831, at a meeting of the Presbytery of Erie, held in Mercer, Pennsylvania, was licensed to preach. The ensuing year and a half he spent chiefly in preaching to the vacant congregations at Amity, Mill Creek, and Sandy Lake. At a meeting of the Presbytery of Erie held at Mill Creek September. 12, 1832, he was ordained and installed pastor of the congregations of Mill Creek and Amity for two- thirds of his time, the remaining third being spent as a stated supply in the church of Sandy Lake. The relation to the church at Amity was dissolved April 3, 1850, and about the same time that to the church at Sandy Lake was suspended. A call from the congregation of Big Sugar Creek was then accepted, and on the 18th of June, 1850, he was installed as its pastor, and until the time of his death, which occurred September 6, 1857, he spent his time in the congregations of Mill Creek and Big Sugar Creek.

In educational matters Mr. Glenn was particularly active. Select schools with competent teachers were organized, and when no more suitable place could be secured, the church building at Mill creek was made to do double duty— an innovation not looked upon with any special mark of favor by the stern old Presbyterians who worshiped there; and to his efforts principally was due the erection, in 1855, of the then commodious building known as the Utica Academy, recently destroyed by fire. To his faithfulness and zeal as a pastor many old citizens of the county gladly testify.

Mr. Glenn was thrice married. His first wife, Miss Rebecca Wycoff, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, died fifteen years after their marriage, leaving the following children to survive her: William Wycoff, now of Coos county, Oregon; Samuel M., now a Presbyterian minister at Zanesville, Ohio; John B., a physician of Franklin; Eliza B., wife of Reverend W.W. McKinney, of Baltimore, Maryland; Sarah J., who died in 1878, the wife of Thomas Alexander of Mercer, Pennsylvania, and Caroline F., who died June 8, 1863. His second wife, Miss Mary Ann McCracken, lived but eight months after her marriage. On the 10th of December, 1849, Mr. Glenn was again married to Miss Harriet Finley of Evansburg, Crawford county; Pennsylvania, with whom he happily spent the remaining years of his life. His remains lie in the old grave- yard at the Mill Creek church, where he passed the whole of his ministerial career. Three children of his third marriage survived him: Robert F., residing in Franklin; Harriet A., and George Stuart, born August 12, 1855, who died February 18, 1873. His widow still survives, and is now a resident of the borough of Utica.