Born in Rush county, Indiana, August 31, 1831, a son of John and Elizabeth Glendenning. He was reared on a farm, receiving his education at the common schools of his neighborhood, and at Grand River College, at Edinburg, Mo. After leaving college he was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Missouri for three years. He gave up his ministerial duties in the fall of 1853 on account of failing health. He began the study of medicine with Dr. David Macey of Bethany, Mo. and latter read medicine under Dr. G. W. Burns of Pleasanton, Iowa. His preceptor having died he was forced into practice before completing his medial course but finally graduated in 1865 from the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. In the fall of 1856 he located in Lineville. During his residence here he has built up a large practice being well skilled in the knowledge of his chosen profession and zealous in his work. Twice his work was interrupted by serving in the State legislature, once in 1864 and again in 1876. E. Glendenning and Lucinda J. Carlisle were married March 5, 1856 to them were born five children.

Born in Rush county, Indiana, August 31, 1831, a son of John and Elizabeth Glendenning. He was reared on a farm, receiving his education at the common schools of his neighborhood, and at Grand River College, at Edinburg, Mo. After leaving college he was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Missouri for three years. He gave up his ministerial duties in the fall of 1853 on account of failing health. He began the study of medicine with Dr. David Macey of Bethany, Mo. and latter read medicine under Dr. G. W. Burns of Pleasanton, Iowa. His preceptor having died he was forced into practice before completing his medial course but finally graduated in 1865 from the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. In the fall of 1856 he located in Lineville. During his residence here he has built up a large practice being well skilled in the knowledge of his chosen profession and zealous in his work. Twice his work was interrupted by serving in the State legislature, once in 1864 and again in 1876. E. Glendenning and Lucinda J. Carlisle were married March 5, 1856 to them were born five children.