GLENDENNING, W. P., teacher, Mormontown [present day Blockton, Taylor County, Iowa]. Among those engaged in instructing the youth of Taylor county we find our subject. Mr. G. is a native of Ohio, born in 1850. Finished his education at the age of seventeen at Burton Academy. From Ohio he went to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, where he worked in the pine forests about eight months, and then engaged as a clerk in a drug store, remaining in that business for one year. He then came to Iowa, stopped at Cedar Falls about six months, when he went to St. Paul, thence to St. Louis by raft, and then west to Kansas. After spending some time in that State he went to the mountains and engaged in mining. In 1874 he returned to Iowa, settling in Ringgold county, where he has since been engaged in farming and teaching. In 1876 he was married to Miss Matilda ALDRIDGE.

SOURCE:  EVANS, Lyman. "Jefferson Township". Taylor County, Iowa History
p. 730. 1881

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, 2008