Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
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The subject of our sketch comes of Virginia parentage. His father and mother, Scottland and Catherine (Sparks) McGlasson, were born in the "Old Dominion" state and emigrated to Kentucky. From there they came to Illinois at an early day and settled on a farm near Glasgow, in what was then Morgan county. On this farm they remained until Mr. McGlasson died in 1852. On this farm F. M. McGlasson was born, April 20, 1837. He worked upon his father's farm and attended the district school until his marriage, February 19, 1855.
He was married to Miss Mary A. Adams, daughter of Absolom and Minerva (Sanders) Adams, and to them nine children were born. Five are dead and the remaining four are: Mrs. Minnie Cook, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Ida Kelley, Winchester; Oscar B., living at Chicago, and Mrs. Maude Sattley of Des Moines, Iowa.
Mr. McGlasson lived on the farm until 1864, and then entered the mercantile business at Glasgow and conducted the same until 1869. That year he was nominated by the democrats of Scott county to the office of county clerk, but his opponent, George W. Martin, won the race by nineteen votes. In 1876 he was the democratic nominee for circuit clerk, and was elected. He was his own successor in office in 1880, and again in 1884. In 1897 he was elected justice of the peace to fill out the unexpired term of John Stansby, and in 1900, was re-elected to that office.
He is a member of the Baptist church, a K. P. and an I. O. M. A. He is known to nearly all the older people in the county and is one of the men who helped to pave the way for the Scott county of today.