LIFE 



Leonidas Chalmers Glenn was born at Crowder's Creek, Xortli Caro- 

 lina, Sej^tember 9, 1871, and received his early training and preparation 

 for college in the public and private schools of the county. After spend- 

 ing a portion of a year each in Clinton College, South Carolina, and 

 Eutherford College, North Carolina, he entered the University of South 

 Carolina in 1888, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1891. The 

 next five years were spent in teaching, the summer of 1895 being spent 

 in physiographic work under Professor W. M. Davis at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. In the fall of 1896 he entered Johns Hopkins University. The 

 summer of 1897 was spent in the eastern Kentucky coal fields on the 

 United States Geological Survey, and the summer of 1898 and part of that 

 of 1899 working on the Miocene areas of ]\[aryland for the Maryland 

 Geological Survey, while other spare time was devoted to work for the 

 North Carolina Geological Survey. During the first year at Johns 

 Hopkins he held an ordinary, and during the second an honorary schol- 

 arship from North Carolina, while during the third year he was Fellow 

 in Geoloav. 



