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Glennon (JOHN JOSEPH an Amer ican Roman)

JOHN JOSEPH, an Amer ican Roman Catholic archbishop, born in Kinnegad, County Meath, Ireland, in 1862.

He graduated from All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1883, and in the following year was ordained priest. He removed to the United States and became assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Kansas City. He was successively pastor of the cathedral in Kansas City, vicar-general of the diocese, administrator of the diocese, and coadjutor-bishop of Kansas City. He was consecrated bishop of Pinara in 1896, and became coadjutor archbishop of St. Louis in 1903. In the same year he was created archbishop of St. Louis.

GLENROY (-roi'), a valley in the Highlands of Scotland, paralled to Glenmore in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. It is nearly 14 miles in length, and little more than 1/2 mile in breadth, and is celebrated for its so-called Parallel Roads which are three parallel terraces running along either side of the glen. Not only do the lines on the same side run parallel to each other, but on both sides they respectively occupy the same horizontal level. These terraces project, at some parts only a few feet from the hillside, and at others widen out so as to be a number of yards in breadth. The lowest terrace is 850 to 862 feet above the sea-level; the GLEN FALLS middle, 1,062 to 1,077 feet; and the highest 1,144 to 1,18 much disputed, but according to Macquarries, lime works, sawmills, shirt, city has extensive marble and limestone supplies enormous water power. The which the place derives its name, and feet over a precipice 900 feet long, from flowing through a ravine, descends 50 miles N. of Albany. The river, here 1,155 feet. Their origin was the roads are shore-lines of glacier lakes.