John Thomas Glenn (March 21, 1844March 14, 1899)Franklin Garrett Necrology Database - Atlanta History Center
was the 31st Mayor of Atlanta from 1889 to 1891, and the son of another

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mayor,

Luther Glenn Luther Judson Glenn (November 26, 1818June 9, 1886) was a prominent Georgia lawyer, politician, Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and antebellum Mayor of Atlanta. He attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of t ...

, and like his father an attorney at law.

Biography

At the beginning of the

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he was attending the

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where he received a

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degree just before the institution was shut down in September 1863. He then served as a captain in the Confederate army. After the war, on April 23, 1873, he married Helen Augusta Garrard (1850–1924) of

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, where her father William Waters Garrard (18181866) practiced law. They had four children who lived to adulthood: Isa Garteray Urquhart Glenn (18741951), a novelist and contemporary of

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; Garrard Glenn (18781949), noted attorney in New York City and subsequently professor of law at

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; Helen Mildred Lewis Glenn (18841972), who married Theodore Gordon Ellyson of

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, the first Naval aviator; and William Louis Glenn (1887–1950), an attorney in New York City. Glenn practiced law in Atlanta, served as Atlanta's mayor, and died less than a decade later. Money from his estate was used to develop the Glenn Building at Spring St and Marietta which was commissioned by the George Fuller Company to coincide with the

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which they were building at the time. It was completed in 1923 and named for him.

References

''History of the University of Georgia'', Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949, p.688''Glenn genealogy,'' derived from family records and letters, Helen Glenn Court, 2009

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1844 births 1899 deaths 19th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state) Mayors of Atlanta University of Georgia alumni Confederate States Army officers {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub