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Celebrated Golden Wedding Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Glover, Lorne Avenue, were  the recipients of many congratulations
yesterday.

The half century of married life was celebrated yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. James S. Glover, 27
Lorne Ave., and members of their family.

Mr. and Mrs. Glover were married in Ireland on March 31st, 1865, and on May 1 of the same
year they reached Brantford, Ont., where they for some time made their home.

Mr. Glover was born in the township of Aughmadauph, county Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland, in
1842 and Mrs. Glover was born in the neighboring township of Aughnagurgan in 1843.  The
former was one of a family of eight, three boys and five girls while the latter had three sisters and
two brothers.

In 1862 Mr. Glover made his first trip to Canada on the man of war, Jura, which played an
important part in the Russian War.  The trip was pleasant and occupied eight days.  In November,
1864, he made the return trip to Ireland on the steamer City of Baltimore.  He waited in New York
for two weeks to return on the boat on which he came out but she was wrecked and after a further
wait of four days he took passgage on the other boat.  The return trip was far from pleasant and as
the steamer approached Queenstown she had a most trying time.  From midnight until six in the
morning she drifted before the wind, as her engines had failed and she was helpless in the storm. 
When daylight came however, assistance reached the boat and at four o'clock in the afternoon she
docked in Queenstown.

The wedding trip to Canada was made on the steamer City of Manchester and no untoward
incidents arose to mar the pleasure and enjoyment of the bridal couple to their new home.

After six months sojourn in Brantford Mr. and Mrs. Glover moved to Seneca, Haldimand county
and for five years he engaged in diversified interests there among them being the operation of a
store and dealing in lumber.  A brother was a school teacher in the neighborhood.

When the oil boom stirred conditions in Pennsylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Glover moved to that state
and Mr. Glover and his brother engaged in the lumber business and operated a store seven miles
from Cory.  

The call of the Union Jack was too strong for Mr. and Mrs. Glover, however, and in 1871 the
family moved to Kent County taking a farm on the 13th Concession of Dover township near
Mitchell's Bay  Two years later they bought property on the 11th con. and the brother came to
Kent.  In 18?? they moved to Mitchell's Bay where for five years Mr. Glover bought lo?(logs?)
and lumber and operated a store.  The next move was to a farm in Baldoon where the family made
their home until 1897 when Mr. Glover decided to retire from such active and strenuous life and
the family moved to Chatham where the home has since been.

In Chatham Mr. Glover has taken a special interest in real estate and has built a large number of
houses and business blocks on vacant property which he bought from time to time.  In this he has
been highly successful and has seen the boundaries of the settled parts of the city extend into what
were pasture fields when he and his family first moved to town.  

Although a family of eight has been raised by Mr. and Mrs. Glover, the hand of death has not
crossed their doorstep, though some deaths have taken place in the family connection.  Not once in
the fifty years has a sad funeral cortege left their home and they point with pride to the health and
strength of the members of their family.  Today both Mr. and Mrs. Glover are hale and hearty and
despite the fact they have passed the allotted span of of three score years and ten both they might
possibly outdistance many who are twenty years their junior for which age they might easily pass.

Yesterday afternoon friends gathered at the home for a reception from three to five o'clock and
last night at six o'clock members of the family gathered for a reunion  and anniversary dinner.

Immediate relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Glover are six daughters, Mrs. Wm. Adams, of Windsor,
Mrs. D. H. Winter, of Chatham, Mrs. H. Stenton, of Charing Cross, Mrs. James McGee, of
Calgary, And Misses Carrie and Minnie at home and two sons Herbert J., grocer on Queen Street
and William J., of Park Ave., Mr. Thomas Glover of Chatham, William J. Glover, of Brantford
and Mrs. Robert Warnock, of Chatham township, are cousins of Mr. Glover and Mr. John Terry
is a brother-in-law.  

Mr. and Mrs. Glover have no brothers or sisters living and their parents have long since passed on
to their reward.

The legions of friends Mr. and Mrs. Glover will join with the family in wishing them continued
health and prosperity, and in the hope that all may join in the diamond wedding anniversary ten
years hence.

Mr. Glover has always been a very ernest Christian worker.  He and his wife are regular attendants
at the church services and today they are counted among the most faithful members of the First
Presbyterian church of this city.  Mr. Glover coming to this city was a great worker in the Sunday
School.  He was for eleven years the superintendant of the Sunday School at Mitchell's Bay in
Dover Township.  For seven years he was a teacher in the Sunday School at Baldoon.  He was
one of the principal promoters of the new St. Andrew's Church in Dover township, and he assisted
very materially in its erection.

Mr. and Mrs. Glover have been readers of the Planet for the past 38 years.  We hope they will
long be spared, not only to read the Planet but also enjoy all the pleasures of life in a progressive
community.

The entertainment at the Glover home last evening was one of the most enjoyable ever held in the
city.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Glover are in the best of health, and they enjoyed the proceedings as well
as the youngest members of the party present.  They were presented with a purse of gold from
their family, and many other gifts were showered upon them by their relatives and admiring
friends.