William Bynum Glenn

Autobiography in his Princeton Class of 1870 20th Reunion book: https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22

http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/10/22/pages/9367/bios.xml

Glenn was born in rural North Carolina to a large and wealthy family of planters. He was sent away for his elementary education, later attending the Virginia Military Institute. Glenn served for six months in the Confederate Army when the war prevented him from returning home in 1863. After the war, he spent a year at a preparatory school in Princeton before entering the University. While younger brother Tom 1871 was one of Princeton’s best pitchers from 1868-1870, “Tar Heel” only played as a substitute for Princeton’s “first nine” in 1868, though he was the president of his class the same year. He briefly competed in Princeton gymnastics in 1870. After graduation, Glenn studied law under the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He opened a law practice and served in the North Carolina Senate and House of Representatives. According to his class’s 20th reunion book in 1890, Glenn showed “serious symptoms of mental derangement” from which his physicians held “very little hope of his recovery.” He died two years later. His law partner went on to become the governor of North Carolina.