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and witb a voice husky witli emotion, and with eyes suffused with tears, 

 he tohl me how unhappy he was and how he longed for the end to come. 

 Among other things lie felt keenly the neglect of his old friends, some 

 of whom were residing then in Baltimore, and whom, he said, had never 

 called upon him or helped to relieve in any way the monotony of his 

 existence. My leave-taking from him on this occasion was most pain- 

 ful. I remained with him as long as I could do so, but when time 

 came to depart he clung to my hand like a child, walking with me out 

 npon the doorstep, and stood looking after me as I walked away. I 

 never saw him again. His death came peacefully on the 7th of Sep- 

 tember, 1883, surrounded by his immediate family, his wife, and adopted 

 daughter, and he was laid at rest in the Loudon Park Cemetery, near 

 Baltimore. 



One who knew Mr. Glover intimately for twenty or more years of his 

 life has said of him, "In his personal habits and intercourse he was 

 peculiar." He was peculiar even to the verge of eccentricity, yet in 

 summing up the many traits of his character, to his very peculiarities 

 is due mainly tlie measure of success in life to which he attained. He 

 was a man of few friends. In his youth the friendship of one or two 

 enthusiastic boy lovers of nature, like himself, who could enter into his 

 pursuits and think as he thought, satisfied him. In middle life, after a 

 residence of five years in Washington, he says of himself, in touching 

 upon this theme, '"Acquaintances 1 have made many, but friends none." 

 That he made few friends I think was due to several causes — a slight 

 distrust of mankind in the first place, coupled with a feeling that too 

 close intimacy would bring a greater or less degree of annoyance. Then 

 he was a man so thoroughly interested and absorbed in his own pursuits 

 that few who came in contact with him, particularly in later life, found 

 in him that responsiveness or congeniality that one expects to call out 

 in a thorough man of the world. But it may be said of him, once a 

 friend always a friend. 



Not averse to society, he enjoyed himself in it, yet in general terms 

 he regarded time spent in complying with its demands as so many hours 

 wasted. I scarcely ever knew a man whose character was made up of 

 such ojjposing traits. He was most generous in many things which, in 

 the estimation of the world, go to make up generosity, yet in the matter 

 of personal concerns, as far as the world went, his self-interest was so 

 absorbing that it left no heed for the interests of others. "Never trouble 

 Mr. Glover with your own affairs" was a gentle hint conveyed to me as 

 a piece of advice a few months after I became his assistant. Heeding 

 it, I won, in time, his friendship, and then another side of his nature 

 was revealed to me. An exacting task-master with himself at all times, 

 he demanded full and unhesitating compliance with his wishes, when 

 once made known, from those over whom he exercised authority ; and 

 yet where the disposition was shown to be diligent and faithful or loyal 



