Samuel L. Glover was born in Oswego County, New York State July 4th 1832, and died at his home in Custer County, Nebr., July 6th, 1918 aged 86 years and two days.
His father died in 1844, leaving the mother and three children to fight life’s battles without the care and protection of a husband and father, Samuel L. being twelve years old at the time. After the death of the father the family moved to a factory town and the children were put to work in the factories while the mother kept a boarding house, thus winning for themselves a living. From here they moved to Erie Co., Pennsylvania when S. L. was about 18 years old and went on a farm where he and his brother farmed. Samuel was an apt pupil and a great reader and acquired a good education and at the age of 21 or 22 taught school where he became acquainted with and attached to Miss Jane Dunn, one of his pupils, and on October 18, 1854, they were united in marriage. To them were born six children, three girls and three boys, Deett, Mrs. J. W. McRoe of La Veta, Colo., Mrs. Mary Potter, Mrs. Grace Sparks, H.B., P.D., and S.L., jr., all of whom, together with the aged wife and twenty grandchildren, survive, all being present at the funeral.
In the year 1857 he moved from Penn. To LaSalle county, Ill., where farmed for a few years, afterward moving to Livingston County in the same state, where he purchased a farm thereon until the year 1886, when he, with his family, came to Custer county and purchased a ranch ten miles south west of Comstock, where he lived until his death, and on or near which all his children, except Mrs. McRoe, now reside.
Funeral services were held at the home Monday, July 8 at 3:00 o’clock p.m., conducted by Rev. Reel, pastor of the Christian Church of Sargent, Nebr., and the remains laid to rest in the Dry Valley cemetery. The services were attended by a large number of sympathizing friends and neighbors who came to pay their last respects to an upright man and neighbor.
Mr. Glover was a man of more than ordinary attainments. He was well versed in the questions of public welfare that were constantly coming up for settlement for the benefit of the people of the state and nation, and took much interest in public affairs. He was an ardent supporter of prohibition and gave all his influence to making Nebraska a dry state. As a farmer and stock-raiser he made a success second to none in the county of Custer. He was a lover of fine stock and made it his business to raise fine cattle and horses. That he made this business pay in dollars and cents is attested by the finely improved farm he enjoyed in his latter years.
After a life well spent and at a ripe old age Samuel L. Glover passed across to that higher and better sphere of life, but his influence for good will live on and on, and Custer County and Nebraska will be a better and cleaner county and state to live in because of his example of thrift and upright living.
