Elijah M. K. Glenn

Elijah M. K. Glenn (August 12, 1807 – after 1870) was a member of the New York State Assembly.

Elijah M. K. Glenn
Member of the New York State Assembly from the 2nd District of Wayne County, New York
In office
January 7 – April 11, 1868 (resigned)
Preceded byOrnon Archer
In office
January 5 – May 11, 1869
Succeeded byAmasa Hall
Personal details
BornAugust 12, 1807
Amsterdam, New York

He was born in Amsterdam, New York to Scottish parents, on August 12, 1807. He studied to become a shoemaker. Glenn was, for fifteen years, an abolitionist who travelled around the country giving lectures.[1] In the late 1840s, he was lecturer for the New York Antislavery Society.[2] When he was twenty-one, Glenn married, and would have six children. During the last forty rears of his life, he lived in Montgomery County, New York, and for twenty years in Macedon, New York. Glenn served as a keeper at Sing Sing Prison, and was in 1861 to 1866, the postmaster of Macedon.[1]

He helped organize the Liberty Party, which he supported until switching to the Republican Party in 1850. Glenn was elected a member of the New York State Assembly from the first district of Cayuga County.[1]

In 1868, Glenn accused Alexander Frear of attempting to bribe him on the topic of the Erie Railroad.[3] On April 10, a select committee appointed to investigate concluded that "the evidence does not furnish any justification for the charges made by Mr. Glenn against Mr. Frear." Thereupon a resolution was passed to censure Glenn. On April 11, Glenn resigned his seat. In November, he was re-elected, and took his seat again in January 1869.[4]

References
  1. Life Sketches of Government Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York ... J. Munsell. 1868.
  2. Lause, Mark A. (2010-10-01). Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. University of Illinois Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-252-09169-8.
  3. Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York. 1868.
  4. Stebbins, Homer Adolph (1913). A Political History of the State of New York 1865-1869. Columbia University. p. 286. Elijah M. K. Glenn.
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