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GLASCO, JESSE MARTIN (1818-1886)
Jesse Martin Glasco, legislator, surveyor, and naturalist, was born on May 12, 1818, in Giles County, Tennessee. Records show that he and his wife, Louisa Earp, daughter of James Earp, were married in Earpville, Upshur County, (now known as Longview) on December 16, 1846. Over the course of the next four decades he held a variety of appointive and elective offices. For many years between 1850 and 1886 Glasco served as Upshur county surveyor and later as deputy surveyor. Most of the original field notes of Upshur County in the General Land Office are in his handwriting. He also surveyed the Upshur County school lands located in Throckmorton and Baylor counties. In 1873, he was appointed by the General Land Office to settle a boundary dispute between Upshur and Gregg counties. He also surveyed the route to be followed by the road from Gilmer to Longview, for which he was paid fifteen dollars. In 1858 and 1862 records indicate he served as deputy county clerk. In 1860 he served as postmaster of Gilmer, Texas. In 1866 he was elected to represent Upshur County in the Eleventh Legislature. In 1877 the Upshur County Commissioners' Court hired him to work with the tax assessor. Glasco was initiated into the Masonic Lodge in 1851 and served as worshipful master between 1856 and 1886. In 1852 he became a trustee of the Masonic Female Institute and was a signer of the charter to establish the Gilmer Male Academy in 1854. He served in the Mexican War in 1847, serving under Col. John Coffee "Jack" Hays, and in the Civil War in 1861, in the Seventeenth Cavalry, Company G, under Capt. William E. Simpson. Glasco wrote articles for the Texas Almanac in 1861, 1867, and 1871. He had a lifelong interest in science, botany, mineralogy, and engineering. From 1859 to 1861 and again from 1867 to 1873 he was meteorological observer for Upshur County for the Smithsonian Institute. He was also an avid naturalist and assembled examples of local reptiles, insects, and Indian pottery for the Smithsonian's collections. Glasco and his wife had eight children. He died on December 17, 1886, and was buried in the Grice Community Cemetery, with a hand-carved tombstone in the shape of a surveyor's corner marker, which was later replaced with a marble stone.
GOODWIN, John Lester (1871-1946)
b. 12 March 1871 in Upshur County, Texas d. 10 May 1946; son of
Sarah Jane and John W. Goodwin; married Ella ____.
GREENING, Nannie Lou (Baird) (1917-1984)
b. 15 April 1917 in Upshur County, Texas; d. 4 June 1984 in Nacogdoches,
Texas; daughter of Mary
Green and George W. Baird; Baptist; married Charles F. Greening
on 22 November 1932. Brother:
W. H. Baird; Mrs. Corene Casley.
Jot Gunter, lawyer, land dealer, and businessman, was born in North Carolina in 1845. His family moved to Georgia and from there to Upshur County, Texas, where Jot attended school at Gilmer. About 1861 he joined the Confederate Army and served under Richard W. (Dick) Dowling. After the Civil War Gunter studied law in the office of Oran M. Roberts and, on June 3, 1869, married Rosana Ford. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law until about 1878, when he became a partner with William B. Munson, Sr., in buying land certificates and locating land claims. Gunter, Munson, and John S. Summerfield began ranching in 1880 and operated the T Anchor Ranch until about 1885. In 1888 Gunter moved to Dallas and dealt in real estate. About 1895 he moved to Sherman to administer his property near the town of Gunter, which was named for him. In 1901 he entered the real estate business in San Antonio, where the Gunter Hotel and the Gunter Office Building were named for him. He died at San Antonio on July 19, 1907, and was buried there in City Cemetery No. 6.
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