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James Nettle Glover (March 15, 1838 – November 18, 1921) was a politician, banker and the founder (as well as its second mayor) of the city of Spokane. In 1871, two squatters, James Downing and Seth Scranton, had built a sawmill at the south bank of the Spokane Falls on the Spokane River.
Nov 18, 2021 · James N. Glover, widely considered “The Father of Spokane,” died at his Spokane mansion after a long illness. “Nowhere, from the humblest to the greatest in the city, was there a place...
Dec 16, 2022 · Arriving in 1873 at Spokane Falls from Salem, Oregon, James Glover (1838-1921) found only two bachelors and three small families scraping by within the frontier settlement. But he foresaw the promise of that site where the Spokane River drops through wild cataracts.
Nov 29, 2003 · James N. Glover is the “Father of Spokane” he helped plan and build Spokane. When his friends gave up and left, he stayed behind and brought the city together. Even, when 32 blocks of Spokane downtown burnt down in August of 1889, Glover didn’t give up hope.
James Glover (headstone) *James Nettle Glover was born on this date in 1793. He was a Black abolitionist and soldier. Born into slavery on a plantation in Port Tobacco, Maryland, he was one of three known War of 1812 veterans buried in Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery.
Mar 10, 2017 · James N. Glover, “the father of Spokane,” continued his series of memoirs in the Spokane Daily Chronicle. He described his first visit in 1873, when he found only three families and two ...
Aug 6, 2014 · James N. Glover and Susan T. Glover around 1880. As the body of the city's most famous pioneer lay silently at the Masonic Temple in 1921, the remaining old-timers and the next generation of...
