Ancestry of
John Glenn

First American to orbit Earth

John Herschel Glenn

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• • Father of John Glenn — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Comin Glenn 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Margaret White   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Jan 1895 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westland Township, Guernsey, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Sep 1966 
  • Death Location:
  • New Concord, Muskingum, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • New Concord Cemetery, New Concord, Muskingum, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Clara Teresa Sproat
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1918 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Herschel Glenn Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Street car conductor

• Sources for John Herschel Glenn

  • ¹ Federal Census, OH, Muskingum County, 1930, Union, E.D. 60-34, Sheet 3A, Image 5 of 14.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Muskingum County, 1940, Union, E.D. 60-36, Sheet 1A, Image 1 of 18.
  • ³ Federal Census, OH, Guernsey County, 1900, Westland, E.D. 2, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 15.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, OH, Guernsey County, 1910, Westland, E.D. 34, Sheet 6A, Image 11 of 13.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/09/2015).
  • ⁶ Hamilton Daily News (Hamilton, Ohio), 10 SEP 1966, Obituary for John H. Glenn Sr..
  • ⁷ Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018, Death record for John H Glenn.
  • ⁸ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for John Glenn Sr..
  • ⁹ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for John Herschel Glenn.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Draft registration for John Herschel Glenn.
  • ¹¹ Watson, Nettie Bowers and Louise Dollison Marsh, Our Glenn Family in America: Immigrant to Astronaut, 1768-1990, Madison, Wisconsin: The Odana Press (1990), 52, 277-282.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "John Glenn", (accessed 03/09/2015).