Daniel B. Glass

SOURCE: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889
Contributed by Michael Brown
18 Oct 1998

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Daniel B. Glass, another successful tiller of the soil, is a native of Henry County, Tenn., born April 26, 1848, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Boone) Glass, natives of Georgia and Kentucky, respectively, and the mother a niece of the great hunter, Daniel Boone. When young the parents went to East Tennessee, where they met and were married. Soon after they moved to Giles County of the same State, and in 1833 moved to Henry County, of West Tennessee, where the father died at an advanced age. In 1850 the mother with some of her children went to Greene County, Mo., and eight years later to Scott [p.1320] County, Ark. In 1867 she came to Sebastian County, where she died at Fort Smith soon after. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and was the mother of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. The father was a carpenter by trade, although he made farming his chief occupation during life. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Their son, Daniel B. Glass, was but two years of age when he immigrated with his parents to Greene County, Mo. He moved around with his mother until 1867, when she came to Sebastian County. His education is very limited, he not having attended school more than twelve months altogether. In October, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, and served until August 28, 1865. He participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkins' Ferry, and a number of minor engagements. He was never wounded or taken prisoner, and received an honorable discharge at Clarksville, Ark. In 1867 he began learning the tanner's trade, at which he worked for about four years. October 4, 1868, he married Miss Mary E. Bunch, a native of Middle Tennessee, born March 17, 1849, and eight children were born to this union: James A., William A., Charles M., Lilly B., Stephen E. T., Jesse C., Daniel E. and an infant (deceased). After leaving the tan-yard Mr. Glass turned his attention to farming, and this he has since continued. During the administration of Gov. Miller, when the militia was called out to quell the trouble in Scott County, Mr. Glass was commissioned captain of a company. He has been justice of the peace of his township, bailiff of the township, and is now deputy sheriff of Sebastian County. In politics he has been a Democrat all his life, and has been a Mason since twenty-one years of age. He is the owner of 190 acres of land, with about 100 under cultivation. He has been a resident of this county for twenty- one years, and is accounted an honest, upright business man. He and Mrs. Glass are both members of the Missionary Baptist Church.