Ancestry of
John Glenn

First American to orbit Earth

John Herschel Glenn Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Herschel Glenn 
  • Mother:
  • Clara Teresa Sproat   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jul 1921 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 2016 
  • Death Location:
  • Columbus, Ohio 
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  • Notes: 

  • Astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio

    First American to orbit Earth

• Sources for John Herschel Glenn Jr.

  • 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 Hamilton Daily News (Hamilton, Ohio), 10 SEP 1966, Obituary for father John H. Glenn Sr..
  • ⁴ Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-1998, Birth record for John Glenn.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "John Glenn", (accessed 03/09/2015).