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In Ulverstone, England, the record shows that Francis Troughton was married to Leona Strick- land, January, 1722. The birth of their son William is recorded (1722) at Rattin Row, Eng- land. William is supposed to have left England while yet a young man and settled on Sandy Creek 31/2 miles northeast of Franklinsville, Ran- dolph County, North Carolina. He became a large planter and mill owner. And during the Revolu- tionary war did all he could for the independence of the American states, and on this account was shot and killed by the English Tories while water- ing his horse just below his mill. His body was buried on the east bank of the creek near his mill. This William Trogdon was the great-great- grandfather of Willard Franklin Trogdon, the . subject of our sketch.
Many of the Trogdon connections have achieved success and renown entitling them to an honorable place in the history of this country. The Trog- dons, Odells, Bowdoins and Ferrees, all ancestors of the subject of our sketch, have been leaders in peace and war. In the Revolution of 1812, in the Civil and Spanish-American war, and now in this World war there are hundreds of Trogdons and Odells. In 1861 Capt. J. M. Odell organized a volunteer company of the Twenty-second North Carolina Regiment and went to the front. His brother, Laban Odell, was first lieutenant, after- wards captain and after that promoted to major, mounted. Major Laban Odell was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia. Ward Trog- don had his leg shot off at the battle of Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania. Howell G. Trogdon, a cousin of subject of our sketch, is commended for gal- lantry and recommended for promotion by Major General Blair and in a report to General Sher- man says:
"Howell G. Trogdon was a member of the Eighth Missouri Regiment United States Army and at the battle of Vicksburg carried the flag in a volunteer storming party of two officers and fifty men from each brigade of the division which led the assault on October 22, 1863, in the Siege of Vicksburg."' R. F. Trogdon, uncle of W. F. Trog- don, was sheriff of Randolph County, a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868; his son, Samuel L. Trogdon, was for twenty years clerk of the United States District Court at Greensboro, North Carolina. Among the Trog- dons are many successful farmers, teachers, civil engineers, ministers of the gospel, builders, con-
tractors, factory superintendents, town builders, advertisers, real estate dealers, lawyers, doctors, merchants and manufacturers. The Trogdons live in nearly every state in the United States and so far as known all can trace their ancestry back to William Trogdon of Ulverstone, Lancastershire, England, who settled 31/2 miles northeast of Frank- linville, Randolph County, North Carolina, from whom are supposed to have descended all of the Trogdons in this country. The census of 1890 gives four Trogdon families living in Randolph County, North Carolina, viz .: Solomon, John, Wil- liam and Samuel.
On February 16, 1886, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mr. Willard Franklin Trogdon was mar- ried to Miss Lizzie Scales-Lentz, a daughter of Jackson and Maria Scales, of Greensboro, and sister of Mrs. B. H. Merrimon, of Greensboro, and a brother of Henry P. Scales of Atlanta, Ga., and a cousin of Governor A. M. Scales of North Caro- lina. Mr. and Mrs. Trogdon had no children.
Mrs. W. F. Trogdon died September 30, 1917, in her sixty-third year. She was a noble, good Christian woman, loved by those who knew her, popular in social circles, and' generally known throughout the state; was for years district secre- tary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Western North Carolina District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and for many years a member of the "State Board of Charities and Public Welfare." Miss Daisy Denson, secretary of this society, wrote that the. new County Home and new jail in Wilkes County were monuments to Mrs. Trogdon's efforts and influence in securing these much needed public buildings.
In religion Mr. Trogdon is a Methodist, was for a number of years a member of the Board of Stewards of West Market Street Church, Greens- boro, and was one of the organizers of the Methodist Church and Sunday school in North Wilkesboro, superintendent of the Sunday school and a steward of the first church established in North Wilkesboro.
Mr. Trogdon was educated at old "Yorks School House" in Randolph County, at Yadkin College and at Eastman's Business College. He has traveled quite extensively in this and foreign countries. Mr. Trogdon has been a member of the- Knights of Pythias and Masonic fraternities for more than twenty years.
That Mr. Trogdon has progressive ideas is gath- ered from the sketch of his life work, his belief in the Christian religion and his strong convic- tion, that :
"The great need of the nation is honest per- severing men and women" and that if you do harm to the family you do harm to the nation, so he is emphatic for the maintenance of the family relation. in all its purity. That if you destroy the family relation you destroy the nation. He believes that every healthy boy and girl should marry as soon as their nature calls and cling to each other to the end.
GEORGE HAHN WARD has recently entered the practice of law, and in less than five years has firmly entrenched himself in tho confidence of the profession and the people generally in Haywood County. He is a member of the firm Morgan & Ward at Waynesville.
Mr. Ward was born in Waynesville February 28, 1892, son of Albert Eugene and Mary (Long) Ward. His father was a stock raiser and farmer,
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and the son grew up on a farmn. He attended Waynesville High School, finished his education in the University of North Carolina in the law department in 1913, and after being licensed to practice returned to Waynesville and joined the firm of Smathers & Morgan, under the name Smathers, Morgan & Ward. Since 1915 the part- nership has been Morgan & Ward, and they con- trol a large general and corporate practice.
Mr. Ward is a member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. April 3, 1915, he married Carrie Sue Adams, of Haywood County, North Carolina, daughter of McD. and Allie (Da- vis) Adams. Her father, who was a merchant, died in March, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Ward have one daughter, Mary Adams Ward.
EUGENE BYRON GLENN, M. D. Few of the capable physicians and surgeons of the state have been distinguished by a broader application of their service than Dr. E. B. Glenn, of Asheville. He is prominent in all the medical organizations, has filled positions of responsibility with various hospitals and institutions, and was the ranking surgeon in the North Carolina National Guard until June 1, 1917, when he was placed on the reserve list, having held a continuous commis- sion in the Guard for over eighteen years.
Doctor Glenn was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, June 21, 1871, eldest son of Marion Sevier and Martha Ann (Curtis) Glenn. Doctor Glenn's Grandfather Curtis died a Confederate soldier during the war. His grandfather, Eli Glenn, was born in Cabarrus County, Eastern North Carolina, in 1812, and came across the Blue Ridge and settled in Buncombe County about 1830. Both Doctor Glenn's parents are natives of North Carolina and his father has been a successful farmer and stockman. Doctor Glenn's father en- listed in the Confederate Army, a mere boy, and served until the war closed. Doctor Glenn lived and worked on his father's farm until he was seven- teen years of age, attending school in the fall and winter months. From 1887 to 1889 he was a high school student, then followed one year by a private instructor, and attendence in the session of 1891-92 at Weaver College, at Weaverville, North Carolina. Doctor Glenn took up the formal study of medicine in September, 1892, at the Jefferson Medical Col- lege in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1896. The same year he was licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina, and besides his prep- aration in one of the greatest as well as the oldest institutions of medical learning in the country he was for a time resident physician at St. Timothy 's Hospital at Roxborough, Philadelphia.
Doctor Glenn is a life member of the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Association. In May, 1899, he received another diploma from the Phila- delphia Polyclinic. Doctor Glenn was one of the organizers in 1903 of the Asheville Hospital and served as president of its board of directors. He was the president of the Buncombe County Medical Society in 1915-16, was a member of the staff of the Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital, Biltmore, North Carolina, from 1905 to 1913. After the death of Dr. F. T. Meriwether in June, 1913, a staff of sixteen physicians was organized and Doc- tor Glenn was elected vice dean and chief of the surgical staff. He is president of the board of directors and one of the large stockholders of the Meriwether Hospital and Training School at Ashe- ville. In 1903-4 he was superintendent of the
board of health of Buncombe County, and was health officer of Asheville in 1898-99.
Doctor Glenn is widely known among medical men as the author of many papers and addresses delivered before organizations and published in medical journals. He is a member of the North Carolina Surgeons' Club, of the Buncombe County Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, the Southern Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the Clinical Surgeons' Congress.
An article that appeared in the Charlotte Medi- cal Journal in July, 1916, edited by Drs. D. W. and Ernest Bullock, spoke in detail of Doctor Glenn's activities in medical circles from the time he joined the North Carolina Medical Society in 1899. "Since that date," says the article, "he has been a regular attendant and only on very few occasions has he failed to read papers at the an- nual meetings. His paper deals with surgical sub- jects, giving his experiences, which are always listened to with great interest and are considered invaluable among surgeons. On surgical subjects his ideas are excellent and logically presented. His style of writing is always attractive when dealing with his favorite subject."
"In 1912," continues the same article, "he joined the Tri-State Medical Association of the Carolinas and Virginia. He has taken a great deal of interest in that organization. At the Charleston meeting in 1915 he read a paper entitled 'Malignancy of the Ovaries; Report of Case Com- plicating Pregnancy.' It received the applause of all the members present.
"His has never been an idle existence, even for a day. When his general practice warranted the opportunity Doctor Glenn has sought to perfect his knowledge and skill by doing post-graduate work at Philadelphia Polyclinic, Jefferson Medical Col- lege Hospital, Mayo Clinics, and various other hos- pitals in Chicago, Nashville, Louisville, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Sur- gery has always been his principal specialty. His surgical work has increased by leaps and bounds and he has necessarily given up general practice.
"The medical societies have felt the worth of this efficient surgeon. He has been chairman of various sections of the State Medical Society. He was elected president of the Buncombe County Medical Society for the year 1915."
Still another paragraph of this appreciation which appeared in the Charlotte Medical Journal should be introduced here. "Doctor Glenn has be- come invaluable in the civic life of his city. About a month after his location in Ashville, July 16, 1896, he received the democratic nomination for coroner for Buncombe County by acclamation. Since that time he has held official and semi- official positions in the city and county administra- tion, working along lines of health and public and civic improvements. While he was county superin- tendent of health he stimulated the interest of the county commissioners in the county poor and an alms house resulted, the most up-to-date of its kind in the South. He and his father have jointly spread the gospel of good roads, and the building of the first macadam roads and iron bridges in his county were thus accomplished during the time his father was on the County Board of Commis- sioners. Doctor Glenn was one of the directors of the Buncombe County Good Roads Association for six years."'
Doctor Glenn was recently re-elected a director of the Asheville Motor Club. He is a member of
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the Asheville Country Club, the Rod and Gun Club, and is affiliated with all the Masonic bodies, including the lodge, Knights Templar, the Thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Consistory, and Oasis Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a charter and life member of Asheville Lodge No. 608, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Junior Order United Ameri- can Mechanics. In a business way, Doctor Glenn is president and director of the Georgia Tale Com- pany, the home offices of which are at Ashville, while the mines are located at Chatsworth, Georgia, and Buncombe and Madison counties, North Caro- lina. He and two of his brothers compose the company. Dr. Eugene B. Glenn is president, Dr. Cassins F. Glenn, vice president, and Judge J. Frazier Glenn is secretary-treasurer.
Doctor Glenn's military record is briefly noted as follows: September 28, 1898, he enlisted in Com- pany F, Second Infantry, as a private, expecting a second call for volunteers, in the Spanish-American war, although he had been practicing his profes- sion for two years. The war closed before the second call was made. In 1899 he was commis- sioned by Governor D. R. Russell as assistant sur- geon with the rank of first lieutenant in the North Carolina National Guard, Second Regiment. The following year he was commissioned captain sur- geon in the same regiment. In February, 1905, he was commissioned surgeon with the rank of major in the First Infantry of the North Carolina Na- tional Guard, by Governor R. B. Glenn. He was recommissioned major-surgeon by Governor W. W. Kitchin in July, 1909, and again recommissioned major-surgeon on April 9, 1913, by Governor Locke Craig. In June, 1917, when the North Carolina troops were ordered to the border by President Wil- son, Major Glenn was placed on the reserve. Doc- tor Glenn has been medical examiner for applicants in the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., since Amer- ica entered the war with Germany a year ago.
On December 21, 1905, Doctor Glenn married Miss Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin. Doctor and Mrs. Glenn have four beautiful children: Eugene Byron, Jr., Marion Sevier, Jr., Ann Dudley Lumpkin and William Wallace Lumpkin.
Doctor Glenn is a member of the Central Metho- dist Church, South, of Asheville.
As the paragraphs already indicate, Doctor Glenn may properly be conceded one of the fortunate and highly accomplished men of North Carolina, but nowhere has his good fortune been greater than in the choice of his wife. Mrs. Glenn has ancestry, impregnable social position, and all the qualities and graces that fit her for her place as the wife of an eminent physician and surgeon.
While Doctor and Mrs. Glenn have been married over ten years there is no lack of propriety in quot- ing a paragraph or two from the newspaper ac- connt of their wedding in her home town of Co- lumbia, South Carolina, since all that was said at the time was abundantly justified hy facts and has been confirmed by subsequent years. Space forbids more than the following quotation :
"The marriage at Trinity Church on Thursday afternoon of Miss Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin to Dr. Eugene Byron Glenn of Ashville attracted the intenso interest not only of South Carolina, of Georgia, the bride's native state, and of North Carolina, where the name of Glenn is such a promi- ment and distinguished name, but of the entire South-for Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin is 'the daughter of the United Confederato Veterans, ' and
wherever there was an old soldier there was a loviug heart to wish her happiness on her wedding day. No other girl in the South since the war has reached so many hearts in which 'the sentiment of the South' is a sacred tradition, and there is scarcely a veteran of the war has not been touched by Miss Lumpkin's reunion address, either en- joyed in all the intensity and brilliance of the young woman's wouderful oratorical powers, or read in uewspaper accounts, deprived of the force of personal delivery but still possessiug a beauty of sentiment and interest which kept the sincerity of feeling warm eveu through the chilling process of press reproduction. So she won their hearts, and every old soldier of them felt a personal pride aud pleasure in her wedding and was gratified that she planned it to be thoroughly 'Confederate' in every feature. Unique it was of necessity, for no other young woman in the South could make her wishes commands.for the officers of the United Confederate Veterans and for no other than the daughter of a veteran would the old soldiers in gray rally from all parts of the Southland to act as escort of honor in the nuptial march. It is in fact doubtful if any Southern girl of modern times ever had such a distinguished galaxy of Con- federate officers as her guard of honor, no less than seven generals and colonels of the United Confederate Veterans marching up the aisle and standing as honored guard before the altar.
"As Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin she became widely known all over the state as a brilliant girl orator, and this fame reached its climax when at the Louisville Reunion of the Confederate Vet- erans she delivered an address which the press dis- patches concerning the convention stated 'aroused more enthusiasm and caused more intense interest than any other speech or address during the re- union.' After her brilliant performance on that day General Evans moved that she be made a Sister of the Confederacy, the highest honor bestowed upon anyone during the reunion, and it received a unanimous vote. Thereafter, as 'the child of the Confederacy' Miss Lumpkin was in great de- mand at all reunions both state and general, and few women of any time have ever gained such euthusiastic praise for effective literary composi- tion and oratorical delivery."
Mrs. Glenn since her marriage has continued to work for the Confederate veterans, an interest which has been continuous with her since child- hood. She has been made honorary member of many of the camps in the South, also of the Grand Camp of Virginia, the Virginia state or- ganization and the state organizations of Georgia and South Carolina. She is a Daughter of the Uuited Confederate Veterans of the South and is one of the state officers of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Glenn is of most distinguished ancestry. She is a daughter of the late Col. William Wallace Lumpkin, who died at her home in Asheville March 13, 1910. Colonel Lumpkin was born on the old `Lumpkin homestead in Oglethorp County, Georgia, February 14, 1849. At the age of fifteen he en- listed in Company D of the Third Georgia Regi- ment and though a boy proved the quality of his patriotism by the same tests as were imposed upon and met by older men. After the war, still a boy in years, he moved with the family to Greene County, Georgia, where he remained a number of years practicing law and looking after a planta- tion. The work as a lawyer which engaged him for so many years was as attorney for the Georgia
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Railway. He was also president at one time of the old Capitol City Railway of Milledgeville, Georgia, and finally became commercial agent of the Georgia Road. He lived at Milledgeville, Macon, Georgia, and finally at Columbia, South Carolina.
Colonel Lumpkin was known as a splendid orator, and his formal addresses as well as his con- temporaneous wit and repartee were heard on various occasions throughout Georgia and South and North Carolina. At one time he was a can- didate for the nomination in South Carolina for United States senator. He served as lieutenant colonel on the staff of Gen. C. Irvine Walker, com- mander of the Army of Northern Virginia, United Confederate Veterans, and was always prominent in the reunions of this order. He was much inter- ested in fraternal matters, belonged to the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, was a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, served as past emi- nent commander of Columbia Commandery, Knight Templars, and at the time of his death was grand generalissimo for South Carolina. He was active as lay reader, vestryman, delegate to diocesan councils, delegate to missionary councils of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and for a number of years was a trustee of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee.
Colonel Lumpkin was one of Georgia and the South's most prominent families, and when a young man he claimed friendship and acquaintance with such immortal characters as Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs, Benjamin Hill and others. Among his family connections were Joseph Henry Lumpkin, first chief justice of Georgia; Wilson Lumpkin, at one time governor of Georgia and United States senator, and Samuel and Joseph H. Lumpkin second, who were associate justices of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Colonel Lumpkin married March 30, 1875, Miss Annie C. Morris, of Augusta, Georgia. They were the parents of three daughters and four sons, the oldest being Mrs. Doctor Glenn of Asheville.
JOSEPH DOZIER BOUSHALL. A capacity for do- ing a great many things and doing them all well has been the distinguishing fact of the career of Joseph Dozier Boushall of Raleigh. His brilliant talents were manifested when he was still in col- lege at Wake Forest, and before he reached his majority and before graduation he was elected county superintendent of instruction of Camden County, North Carolina. Since then, a period of more than thirty years, he has found success in business, has filled public office with credit and distinction, and has been a prominent Baptist lay- man of North Carolina.
He is of old and honored ancestry. The Bous- hall family is of French origin. Joseph Dozier Boushall was born in Camden County, North Caro- lina, February 20, 1864. The home in which he was born was also the birthplace of his father and his father's mother. The land came into the possession of the family through the distinguished service of his great-grandfather, Col. Joseph Dozier, in the American War for Independence. Mr. Boushall's father, Thomas B. Boushall, served as a colonel of militia in the war between the states and was a member of the army from the beginning to the end of the struggle. He was one of the prominent figures in democratic politics in Camden County, served as register of deeds, as county surveyor, as chairman of the board of county commissioners, and chairman of the board of education. By occupation he was a farmer. The
mother of Mr. Boushall was Annie Thompson, daughter of Rev. George M. Thompson, a pioneer Baptist minister who came to North Carolina from England.
Joseph Dozier Boushall was educated in the pub- lic and private schools of his native county and in 1886 graduated from Wake Forest College. At the age of nineteen he was elected superintend- ent of public instruction of Camden County but after serving in that position three months re- signed. For a time he was principal of the Acad- emy at Palmerville, North Carolina, and from 1887 to 1893, six years, he was chief clerk to the auditor of state. His last years in that position were under Dr. G. W. Sanderlin, state auditor. Doctor Sanderlin was candidate for nomination for gov- ernor, with Mr. Boushall as candidate for auditor. When Doctor Sanderlin failed to secure the nom- ination, Mr. Boushall also withdrew from the con- test for auditor in favor of Doctor Sanderlin.
In 1898 Mr. Boushall was a candidate for the Legislature in Wake County. He was a leader in the campaign for white supremacy and led the ticket against the old fusion majority, being elected as a democrat by 650 votes. During the following Legislature he served on the judiciary and finance committees and was chairman of the house com- mittee on insurance. He helped bring about some of the very important legislation enacted by that session. In 1900 he was a candidate for nomina- tion for state treasurer and in 1912 for lieutenant- governor, each time receiving a flattering vote though failing of success.
For many years Mr. Boushall has been active in the insurance field. He began his career as cashier in the general agency of the Aetna Life Insurance Company at Raleigh and two years later was made general agent for North Carolina, a posi- tion he resigned in 1907. He then entered the lumber business at Raleigh, but in 1908 became agency manager over the eastern half of North Carolina for the Equitable Life Insurance Com- pany. In 1915 he retired from the management. In 1917 he became general agent for the State Life Insurance Company of Indiana. He served two years as a member of the executive commit- tee of the National Underwriters' Association, and also as president of the North Carolina Life Un- derwriters' Association. He is president of the Federal Trust Company of Raleigh, a company making a specialty of loaning money on real estate. During his work in the state auditor's office he also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1887, though he practiced only one year.
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