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Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Samuel L. Glasgow
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:11:12 EST

SAMUEL L. GLASGOW was born in Adams County, Ohio, on the 17th of September,
1838.  He was educated at South Salem Academy and in the fall of 1853 came to
Iowa and first located at Oskaloosa where he was admitted to the bar in 1858.
 He soon after removed to Corydon where he opened a law office.  In July,
1861, he assisted in raising Company I, of the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
and was chosen first lieutenant.  In 1862 he was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-third Regiment.  Upon the death of Colonel
Kinsman he was promoted to the command of the regiment, making an excellent
officer and before the close of the war attained the rank of brevet
Brigadier-General.  Upon his return home he was elected on the Republican
ticket Representative in the Eleventh General Assembly.  In 1867 he was
appointed United States Consul to Havre, France, where he remained several
years.  In 1872 he was sent to Glasgow, Scotland, as United States Consul.


Debbie Clough Gerischer
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