San Luis Obispo County Biographies

DR. J. H. GLASS

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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DR. J. H. GLASS, El Paso de Robles. In the early part of the seventeenth century Scotland 
furnished her full quota of hardy sons to settle and reclaim a portion of America, by 
laying the foundation of a free and independent people. They were self-reliant, 
persevering and possessed of a high degree of common sense. The progenitor of 
the Glass family came from Scotland and settled in one of the colonies of the mother 
country. His son, Hiram Glass, was born in Tennessee, and his son, Dr. Wilson H. Glass, 
was born in Wytheville, Virginia, where for years he followed the practice of medicine. 
There he married Miss Martha J. Minter, also a Virginian, the daughter of Charles Minter, 
and a descendant of one of the old Virginia families. They removed to Kentucky, where 
their children were brought up. Notwithstanding the Southern birth and education of 
his parents and ancestors, Dr. Wilson H. Glass was an avowed Abolitionist; and when 
the great civil war was sprung upon the country, compelling all men to take sides, he 
tendered his services to the United States Government and served as Surgeon in the 
Union Army with distinction until the close of the war. Mrs. Glass' youngest brother, 
L. C. Minter, was a Captain of the Eighth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and while 
commanding his company at the battle of Stone River he received a wound which  
resulted fatally. He was buried by the roadside, and six years afterward his grave was 
identified, the remains were brought home and interred in the family burying ground. 

Dr. Glass, our subject, was the second of his parents four children. He was born in 
Kentucky, July 28, 1857, and was brought up in his native State, studied medicine 
under his father's instructions, attended a medical college course at Keokuk, Iowa, and 
practiced his profession six years iu his native town, in connection with his father. He then 
attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, graduated in 1884, 
practiced two years longer at his Kentucky home, in 1886 went to Florida and thence came to 
Santa Clara County, this State, and in a short time, in 1887, to El Paso de Robles. He had 
been through the county of San Luis Obispo in 1886, and became favorably impressed with 
the character of the country. The building of the railroad satisfied him that Paso Robles 
was destined to be a good town, and he accordingly located here; and from that start he 
has enjoyed a good patronage in his practice as a physician, which he deserves, on account 
of his moral integrity and reliability. He has bought city property and built upon it a 
pleasant residence, and is identified with all the interests of the town. 

He was married March 29, 1885, to Miss Mettie Hogg, a native of his own town in 
Kentucky and daughter of Stephen P. Hogg, a lawyer. They have one child, Carl, born in 
Santa Clara County, April 23, 1886. Mrs. Glass is a member of the Christian Church, 
and is the present Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star Chapter. The Doctor is a 
Freemason, an Odd Fellow and a Republican. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II. -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.