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Show workers boarded there. she daughters Sarah, Ingri and Mary married boarders: Niels Lind, Olaf Hakanson and Hans Pearson. As each girl married she was given a piece of land on - which to build quiet demure person. A faithful wife longed for her family in England. was a Three of the a , James and Mary for room a the parents of ten children - George, Sarah Ann, Albert and Joseph (born in, England) and Mary Jane, Hyrum, Elizabeth Anna, Emma and Eliza Ann (born in Weles). Frances Alice, the "Yankee" was the only one born in the United home. These houses fronted the present Wasatch Street and had were and mother, garden and chicken coop. States. Melissa B. Glover ALBERT GLOVER SR. Albert Glover Sr., son of James Glover, filled a mission to England in 1898-1900. While there, he often visited Hyde Park in London, because he was so in learning the names of the lovely trees and that grew there. Upon his return home, he terested in shrubs Jens A. Nilson In 1908, as Cecilia railroad track after a train and of by a had to be alone for one decided to go into the nursery business. Albert Glover established the first nursery south of Salt Lake County. Cecilia Nilson walking home along the Sarah's, she was run over her legs was crushed so badly it was Not visit to amputated. When Jens died in 1918, she lived time, then lived with Sarah. She lived to be after their father's death in 1925, his three James Nursery, a calling his business the Midvale Nur sery and Parley R. using the name of Glover Nursery and Floral. All three of these businesses were located ' more long sons, who had worked with their father, carried on in separate businesses. Albert Jr. retained the Jordan than 96 years old. within Elizabeth W. Lind a short distance of each other. The Glover Nur sery and Floral was on the east side of State Street at 7195 South, and the other two were a little farther north JAMES AND MARY R. GLOVER Glover, born in 1823 in England, was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith trade. In 1844, he married Mary Rowswell and they later left England for Wales where wages were higher. Here they joined the LDS Church and made plans to emigrate to utah. In 1866, they crossed on the ship "Arkwright" and arrived in New York with their eight children. Their financial assets were a dollar and a few 'cents. James found work in McKeesport, Pennsylvania where they stayed awhile before coming to utah. Their oldest daughter, Sarah, had come to Utah in on the west side of State Street. James Melissa B. Glover CHARLES AND ANNA M. P. SHARP Sharp, born in 1832 in Northhamptonshire, England, was the son of George and Esther Richards Sharp. At ten he was apprenticed to work in a shoe shop Charles and followed this trade for many years. In 1850 he joined the LDS Church and in 1856 came to America in the "Caravan." In 1857 he drove a team of oxen from Nebraska to utah for Byard Crossgrove. As 1865, where she had married Francis Cundick. The oldest son, George, traveled by wagon train, but James, his wife and the other eight children came on the Union Pacific train to Ogden in 1869, then by team to Salt Lake City. dan He was was they journeyed across the plains they were passed and repassed by Johnston's Army. The army traveled by night and the pioneers traveled by day and camped at night. Teamsters of both companies were always jovial and friendly as they passed. The pioneers arrived in the valley ahead of the army in September, 1857. Charles with others was sent back to Echo Canyon to help delay told that Archibald Gardner of West Jora blacksmith. They lived in a two in need of log house a little ways from the mill. About two years later, the shop burned down and James decided to build one in East Jordan. He bought several acres for forty dollars on the corner of South room Allen and Center Streets and built a blacksmith the' army. After Charles' return from Echo shop facing east. The Glover home was a little south of the shop. James was active in church and civic affairs. Mary Rowswell Glover, the second daughter of William and Ann Male Glover of Somerset England, Canyon he followed his trade of who had 32 a shoemaking and in 1858 married Ann Malin daughter, Ann. He worked for awhile on the cobble rock walk which surrounded the Temple block. For this he was paid in paper tithing scrip. |
