CHAPTER LV 

 JOHN M. GLENN, A.M., LL.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM I9II-I9I2 



AND 1919-1920 



JOHN MARK GLENN, the son of William Wilkins and Ellen 

 Mark Smith Glenn, was born in Baltimore, Md., October 28, 

 1858. He received the degree of A.M. at the Washington 

 and Lee University in 1879, took up special studies at Johns 

 Hopkins University from 1879 to 1880, became LL.B. of the Uni- 

 versity of Maryland in 1882, and an honorary A.M. of Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital in 1902. He was admitted to the bar in 1882. 

 Washington and Lee University conferred upon him the degree of 

 LL.D. in 1897. 



Mr. Glenn's activities have been preeminently philanthropic, 

 and in the interest of social work and public welfare. He was one 

 of the supervisors of the City Charities of Baltimore from 1898 to 

 1907, and from 1904 to 1907 was president of the board. In 1907 

 he was selected director of the Russell Sage Foundation, a fund 

 of $10,000,000 set aside by the late Mrs. Russell Sage for the 

 betterment of the social and living conditions. It was fortunate, 

 indeed, that Mr. Glenn was chosen to administer that fund. Being 

 deeply interested in the tuberculosis problem, he has been not 

 only sympathetic, but most helpful to the work which the Na- 

 tional Tuberculosis Association is doing. Through his interest 

 grants of considerable sums were made to the National Tubercu- 

 losis Association beginning with 1907, and extending over a period 

 of several years. These funds did much to start the struggling 

 National Association on its career of usefulness. Mr. Glenn was 

 chosen president of the National Conference of Charities and 

 Correction in 1901. He is a member of the Administration Com- 

 mission of the Federal Council of Churches, of the Joint Commis- 

 sion of Social Service of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and of 

 the Central Commission of the American Red Cross, and a trustee 

 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 



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