Born September 24, 1824, in Adams County, Ohio, the son of James M. Glasgow and Mary Polly McNeil. Mr. Glasgow married Miss Nancy Ann Campbell, February 26, 1846. They had seven children. In the year 1851, he moved with his wife to Iowa settling first in Mahaska County and later in Wayne County of the same state. He enlisted in Co. F, 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, in September, 1861, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and was enrolled as a private, but was mustered in as fifth sergeant in the same company and served in Missouri and Arkansas. In 1868, Mr. Glasgow was nominated, and by his party was elected, a member of the Lower House of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa. In 1877, he came to Republic County, Kansas, moving to Courtland in 1890. Mr. Glasgow served as Republican member of the House in the Kansas legislature in 1885. He died September 17, 1909 in Courtland, Kansas.