John Thomas Glenn (March 21, 1844March 14, 1899)Franklin Garrett Necrology Database - Atlanta History Center
was the 31st

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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 th ...

, 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 (18851971), 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 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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