John Thomas Glenn

John Thomas Glenn (March 21, 1844 – March 14, 1899)

At the beginning of the American Civil War he was attending the University of Georgia where he received a Bachelor of Arts 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

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 Spring Street Viaduct 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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