Glennon
Glennon names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Glennon JAMES HENRY, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES HENRY, an American naval officer, born in French Gulch, Cal., in 1857. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1878. He was appointed ensign in 1882. He rose through the various grades, becoming captain in 1909, and rear-admiral in 1916. During the Spanish- American War he served on the "Massachusetts," and was acting captain of the port of Havana in 1899. He commanded at various times the Navy Yard of New York, and other navy yards, and was a member of the Panama Fortifications Board. He was also president of the Board of Naval Ordnance and the Joint Army and Navy Board on gun forgings, in 1915. He was commander of the Navy Yard and superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory at Washington in 1915-1917. In the latter year he was a representative of the Navy Department with the American special mission to Russia. He was commander of Squadron One, of the Battleship Force of the Atlantic Fleet, in September, 1917, and was commander of the 5th Division of the Atlantic Fleet in 1918. In 1918-1919 he was commandant of the 13th Naval District.
Glennon JOHN JOSEPH, an Amer ican Roman Catholic archbishop
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, both Glennons were still in mid-career. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon went on to lead St. Louis for 43 years, completing the great mosaic-clad New Cathedral he had begun, and was finally made a cardinal by Pius XII in February 1946 "" only to die weeks later in Dublin, in his native Ireland, on the journey home. His reputation is now decidedly mixed: he resisted integrating St. Louis Catholic institutions, and it was his successor Joseph Ritter who desegregated the archdiocese's schools in 1947. Rear-Admiral James Henry Glennon died in 1940, and the destroyer named for him, USS Glennon, was mortally damaged by a mine off Normandy in June 1944.
Written for this edition, 2026.