Person:Stephen Glasscock (2)

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m. 1859
  1. Stephen Andrew Douglas Glasscock1860 - 1915
  2. William Ellsworth Glasscock1862 - 1925
m. Abt 1885
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Name Stephen Andrew Douglas Glasscock
Gender Male
Birth? 7 Mar 1860 Arnettsville, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States
Marriage Abt 1885 West Virginia, United Statesto Amelia A. Glasscock
Death? 13 Dec 1915 Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States

Stephen A. D. Glasscock was born in 1860 in Arnettsville, Monongalia, West Virginia to Daniel and Prudence (Michael) Glasscock. He came to Bellingham in 1901 from St. John, Kansas and founded the Washington Grocery company on Railroad avenue.

On December 13, 1915 Stephen A. D. Glasscock was fatally injured by being struck by the elevator at the Washington Grocery company's building. Mr. Glasscock had recieved an inquiry over the long distance telephone as to whether he had certain goods in stock. He went to the elevator shaft and, leaning over the railing that guards its entrance, called out to the clerk in the basement below. He apparently did not notice the descending elevator. The bottom of the elevator struck him on the back of the head and pinned his head between the car and the gate over which he was leaning.

At the time of his death he was president of the Bellingham Candy company as well as president of the Washington Grocery company. He had served as a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce and was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

Tributes paid to Mr. Glasscock came from Judge Howard Clinton, who said that Stephen A. D. Glasscock was responsible for the reversal of the interstate commerce commission's ruling which denied Bellingham terminal freight rates, for which the city is indebted to him. Other testimonials came from Charles Nolte, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J. J. Donovan, Mr. E. W. Purdy and Mr. P. P. Lee.

Mr. Glasscock was survived by one son, Carleton, a student at the University of Washington; two brothers, William Ellsworth Glasscock, former Govenor of West Virginia, and (Samuel) Fuller Glasscock, and by one sister, Mrs. Louverna Smith; the brothers and sister resided in Morgantown, West Virginia. His father-in-law, Mr. A. C. Glasscock and sister-in-law, Miss Rena Glasscock, came to accompany the body to its final resting place in St. John, Kansas.

Stephen Glasscock's estate was left to his son, Calvin Carlton/Carlson Glasscock and the trustees of the estate were Mr. Glasscock's brothers, William E. Glasscock and Samuel Fuller Glasscock of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Mr. Glasscock was a first cousin to Alexander Newman Glasscock, an early settler of Lopez Island and Port Townsend. Governor William E. Glasscock of West Virginia, brother to S. A. D. Glasscock, arrived in Bellingham August 3, 1909 on an official visit.

(The obituary of Stephen A. D. Glasscock appeared in The Bellingham Herald, December 13, 14 and 20, 1915; the December 13, 1915 issue carried his picture; estate information is from January 3, 1916; Aug. 3, 1909)

Compiled by Susan Nahas.