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Show Joe C. Smith Retires from Red Gross Service; Mrs. Susan Glenn Receives Award MRS. SUSAN GLENN CAME TO MILFORD WHEN THE TOWN WAS YOUNG By MRS. VENA WILSON In our town, in a neat white house on North Main street, lives one of the old-time residents resi-dents of Milford. She is an adopted daughter of our country, coun-try, having been born across the sea. She lives in the same house to which ,her husband brought her as a bride at the turn of the century. She is seen often on our streets as she goes about the various duties that occupy her busy days, always neatly and attractively dressed, her crown of white hair agleam in the bright summer sun, her hazel eyes sparkling with the joy of life, and her Irish wit ready for any battle of words that presents itself. She was born as Susan Porter, but we have come to know and love her as Mrs. Susan Su-san Glenn. 1 To Mr. and Mrs. Porter of Liverpool, England, Susan presented pre-sented herself as the third child in a family of three, on November Novem-ber 12, 1879. Mr. Porter was a baker, his wife a seamstress, bofti of pure Irish descent. They were what is known in England as "tradespeople," and Susan was brought up in a comfortable home with all the privileges and advantages that belonged to her station in life. She attended the public school, dressed well, and was well cared for. Her older sister died in infancy, but she had a brother who never married, mar-ried, served in World War I, and' is now a sheep owner in the highlands of Scotland. The illness of Mr. Porter caused the family to move to Ireland when Susan was about eight years .old. They made their home in Armagh, one of the very old cities of that interesting inter-esting country, and here the father died, leaving the mother with the two small children. They remained in Armagh. Mrs. Porter busy with her needle, until Susan was 17, when the mother, too, slipped away, and the children were left alone. Then Susan went into service being employed as one of many helpers on a very large and beautiful estate near Belfast, owned by a wealthy industrialist. industrial-ist. She was shown every consideration con-sideration by her employer and enjoyed the work and the com- panionship of her associates. Here a romance with James Glenn, one of the gardeners on the estate, ripened into a betrothal, be-trothal, and soon Mr. Glenn was on his way to America, accompanied accom-panied by his mother and aunt, Mrs. Forgie. Here he prepared for the coming of his fiance. Then when all was ready in this new western land, Susan said goodbye to her beloved Ireland and arrived in Salt Lake City in May, 1902, and was married to her "Jim" in the old Cullen Hotel. They came at once to Milford, and. she began housekeeping house-keeping in a part of the house where she now lives. It was not plastered and, had cloth-covered ceilings, but the three small rooms were sweet and clean and she immediately went about making it into a real home. She has in her scrapbook a list of the furniture she bought at the old P. B. McKeon store, together with the price of each article, that set the newlyweds up in their housekeeping venture. All the mining people of Milford Mil-ford with whom Mr. Glenn was associated put on a fine banquet as a reception for the young couple, and every one was so hospitable and kindly that Mrs. Glenn says she felt right at home. She says they served chicken and strawberries at the banquet. She could see how they could get chicken, but she never discovered where and how they got fresh strawberries in May in Milford. Her house was the farthest out of town on Main street, surrounded sur-rounded by sagebrush, with a party of Indians camped on the lot just north of her. She was uneasy about the Indians, but was assured they were perfectly harmless, and so they proved to be. Mrs. Glenn had never seen a lumber house until she came to America. All in Ireland were built of brick or stone, the larger houses having slate roofs the smaller farm houses having thatched roofs. So when the wind blew, as it usually does in Continued on Back Page in the little gray church op. the? corner and regularly attends a'l the church functions. For years she has been actively ac-tively intcres'cd in the weak cf ( the Tebokah Lodye. Her Ions; I membership and fine service in that organization entitles her to a 35-year pin cf recognition. Whatever is of interest to Mil-ford Mil-ford is also of interest to her. She can often be found at the polls at election time, serving in some official capacity. She dashes over to the hospital daily for the records for the vital statistics, of which she is custodian. cus-todian. She is a regular attendant at-tendant at the various school; programs, ah honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars -nd belongs to several social r.h,b-'. as well. So, though she Iris been alone since her hus-b.t.d hus-b.t.d cl.ed in 1:3. shf. still finds o do and many things to enjoy ll'-1' t,lUV 'nun um lS 10 be lielpful in building up ' the little de;ert town she has called home for 47 years, and which ne loves vvilli al lher heart. She is proud of its accomplishments and is always ready to serve it in any line of duty. As an example of a devoted wife and moUn-'r, a loyal friend, a tireless community worker in 'horl. as an example of an outstanding American citizen, we submit the name of Mrs. Susan Glenn, adopted daughter of Uncle Sam. Susan Glenn j Receives Award Continued from Page One Milford, and her cloth-covered ceilings flapped up and down, she was dure her home would be demolished and ran for help. There were no sidewalks in Milford in those days, and all ihe water was pumped by hand from wells and carried sometimes some-times for blocks. It was bitterly cold here, compared to what she had been accustomed to in her old home, But Mrs. Glenn says she never felt she had any hardships, hard-ships, for she had all the comforts com-forts that all the others had. One can sympathize with the young wife, coming from the soft green landscapes of Old Ireland and looking out upon the long stretches of the Great American Desert in her new home in ; Utah. Susan says she was terrified at first, by the wide and fierce j expanse of this lonely valley but with this desolation were the opal-tinted mountains and the wild sweet sweep of the sagebrush - scented wind, and the friendly neighbors all around her, together with her own little lit-tle family, so she soon grew to love it all and was very contented. con-tented. There were but three trees in Milford at that time. One was at the depot, one in the lot now occupied by the Catholic church and one near the present home of Mr. Sam Cline. These were j but little wisps, brutally whipped and bent by the hot dry winds. When Mr. Glenn's five years as a probationary citizen had expired, ex-pired, Mrs. Glenn went with him to Beaver, where he was given 1 his final papers, and thus automatically auto-matically Susan became a Unit-1 Unit-1 ed States citizen with her husband. hus-band. In the course of time two : sons were born in the little house. David, the elder, lives 1 next door to his mother, and Charles makes his home in Elko, Nev. They have been the . crowning joy of her life. Though , Mrs. Glenn's business has been , primarily the keeping of a home , for her sons and husband, she . has always found time to take . part in all the activities looking toward the betterment of Milford. Mil-ford. Reared as a Presbyterian nevertheless she was one of th I organizers of the first Sunday School in Milford, and when the Methodist church was in the process of being built was one ' of its most devoted supporters. She still retains her membershir. |
