Joseph Glidden Research Paper

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Glidden was an Englishmen that was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was born on January 18, 1813. Shortly after he was born, him and his family moved to the City of Orleans County, New York. Joseph attended school just as a normal child during his young, adolescent years, but soon after, was needed at home for farming help so he only went during the winter months. When Glidden was a teenager, he discovered that he had an interest in teaching. He attended Vermont’s Middlebury Academy to receive training to fulfill his dream of teaching. After finishing school at the academy, he attended a seminary, or school for teaching of different kinds, in Lima, New York. He later got a job as a teacher in Lima, but the job was short lived, as his love for farming drew him back to Orleans County. He stayed in Orleans County for eight years to help with the family farm. In the year of 1837 he married a young woman by the name of Clarissa Foster, in the city of Clarendon, New York. Then after marriage, moved to Illinois. Clarissa and Glidden had three children together. His children’s names with Clarissa were Virgil Glidden, Homer Glidden, and the third one was not named because it died shortly after birth. There are no specific dates on when his children were born, but Virgil and Homer are believed to be born in between the years of 1837 and 1843. Clarissa died in childbirth during the birth of their third child together, and the infant died shortly after the birth as well. Virgil and Homer both died from an epidemic. This led to Glidden being left alone only a few years after being married. Glidden wanted to buy his own land, but sadly, lacked the funds to do so. This led him to head toward the west in 1842. He owned two threshing machines, or machines that removes seeds from the stalks and husks, which he brought along on the journey with him. His journey was from Illinois to Michigan and back again. Along the way, to earn money, he offered farm work to people willing to pay. He would do labor by hand and also use the two threshing machines that he brought with him. Two years after traveling and working, in 1844, he had earned enough money to buy over six hundred acres of land in Illinois, near the land of DeKalb. Over time, by selling the goods grown on his land and still working for people who needed help with their farms, he was able to earn enough money to increase his land amount to over 1500 acres. On this land, he built a house, and increased his farming about substantially and even began to raise his own cattle. In the year of 1851, Glidden remarried to Lucinda Warner. Lucinda was also from the little town of DeKalb, Illinois. On December 29, of 1851 Glidden’s third, technically fourth, child was born. She was a female named Elva Glidden. From the years of 1852 to 1854, he served as sheriff of DeKalb in Illinois. Between the years of 1851 to 1876 he had a job of being a part of the Board of Supervisors of the county. In the year of 1867 he was nominated as the democrat for the Illinois State Senator. He did not win the election. From the years 1861 to 1874 he was a board member of the School Board Directors, and for the next 20 years, he paid one of the highest school taxes in history and more than all the citizens in the county. Since he attended a seminary, or school of teaching of many
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