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About Francis Thomas Glasgow, Sr.
Francis Thomas Glasgow was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, one of nine children of Robert Glasgow- who was one of three surviving sons of Arthur Glasgow, the patriarch of the Glasgow family in Virginia. Arthur and his brothers and mother came to Virginia about 1766. The family took possession of a 5000 acre land grant in what was then Augusta and Orange Counties.
Francis Thomas Glasgow graduated from Washington University (later Washington and Lee) in 1847. He read Law in Richmond for two years, then was employed by his uncle Gen. Joseph Reid Anderson (his mother's brother) as Superintendent/Managing Director of Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va. during the Civil War.
He was born at "Green Springs" and raised in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
He married Anne Gholson on July 14, 1853, and they had ten children together.
Father of the Pulitzer prize winning author, Ellen Glasgow.
In 1879 the estate was purchased by Frank T. Glasgow of Richmond, father of the author Ellen Glasgow. Ellen Glasgow spent her childhood summers at Jerdone Castle, Louisa County, Virginia, which she later said greatly influenced her writing. In the fourth chapter of The Woman Within, entitled “I Become a Writer,” Miss Glasgow describes lying in the meadow at Jerdone Castle and coming to the realization that writing was to be her future (VLR 280).
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Francis Thomas Glasgow, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1829 |
September 13, 1829
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Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States
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| 1865 |
May 30, 1865
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| 1870 |
1870
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| 1873 |
April 22, 1873
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Richmond, Virginia, United States
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| 1877 |
January 31, 1877
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| 1916 |
January 29, 1916
Age 86
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Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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