File:WEBB(1892) p406 - Glover, Charles C.jpg
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| Date | 1892 | ||||
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British Library HMNTS 10412.i.12. |
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| Notes | Charles Carroll Glover, one of the ablest and one of the youngest financiers of Washington, was born in Macon County, North Carolina, November 24, 1846. His grandfather, Charles Carroll Glover, in the early years of this century, was a large property holder and a prominent and esteemed citizen of Washington. His father, Richard L. Glover, was a native of Washington, and with his wife, formerly Miss Caroline Percy, in about 1845, moved to a farm on Valley River, about twenty miles from Asheville,North Carolina, and Avere living there when Mr. GloverAvas born. When he was eight years old, his parents moved to Washington, and here he attended Rittenhouse Academy, taught by Otis C. Wight, one of the prominent teachersof the city. At the age of sixteen,he enteredFrank Taylor's bookstore, remaining there three years. On June 30, 1866, he entered the banking house of Riggs & Company, and in time rose to be the teller in the bank. On January 1, 1874, upon the invitation of Mr. Riggs, he became a member of the firm, and so remains to the present time, and it is since that time that most of his important Avork has been performed. In 1876, he joined the management of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, which afterward became a prosperous corporation. In 1881, he entered the directory, and became vicepresident of the company a few years later, resigning in 1891 both the vice-presidency and the directorship, and leaving the corporation one of the finest in the country. He became a director in the National Safe Deposit, Savings, and Trust Company before it assumed its present name, and is now vice-president of the institution. He was one of the originators of the Columbia Fire Insurance Company, and is now its vice-president. In 1881, he began the effort which resulted in the reclamation of the Potomac Flats, Avhich gave to the city another beautiful park containing about four hundred acres of land, adding much to its beauty as well as to its healthfulness; and he was also largely influential in securing the extension of the Avaterworks,by which extension they are equally efficient with any system in the country. He is one of the trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery, and was the last to enter the board previous to Mr. Corcoran's death. In 1891, he succeeded in inducing the trustees to purchase a large tract of land on Seventeenth Street and New York Avenue with the view of erecting thereon a new gallery, which will be done as soon as practicable. He has been for a long time connected with the Church of the Epiphany, and has been vestryman for a number of years. The crowning event of his life, however, is doubtless the success attending his labors in securing the condemnation of about two thousand acres in Rock Creek Valley for a national park,called Rock Creek Park. This work was commencedin 1888, and continued until the bill passed Congress in September, 1890, assuring the success of the project. | ||||
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Image extracted from page 406 of Centennial History of the city of Washington, D.C., by WEBB, William B. - and WOOLDRIDGE (John) of Cleveland, Ohio. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr. Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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