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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



GOVERNOR R. B. GLENN OF NORTH CAROLINA 



SELDOM has forestry found a more ardent and enthusiastic advocate than Governor 

 Robert Brodnax Glenn of North Carolina. Among the first in North Carolina to dis- 

 cern the value of forestry to 1) is State, and appreciating the vast interests at stake, he 

 has ardently championed the cause and by the force of his example and his unflagging 

 interest gained the support of all substantial citizens. Just now the State is beginning 

 to awake to its needs and to realize more fully the magnitude of its interests involved 

 through destruction of the forests, and the many advantages to be derived from the pro- 

 posed Appalachian Forest Reserve. Governor Glenn's prompt and intelligent support of 

 the forest movement is characteristic of his work in other lines. 



Robert Brodnax Glenn was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, August 11, 

 1854, the son of Chalmers L. and Annie S. Glenn. He received education through a tutor 

 at home, later attending the high school at Leaksville, N. C, Davidson's College, N. C, 

 and finally Pearson's Law School at Richmond Hill, N. C. Upon completing his course at 

 the latter school he engaged in the general practice of law, and since 1878 has been a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Glenn, Moody and Hendren, at Winston, N. C. He has been assistant 

 director for the Southern Railway, attorney for the Western Union Telegraph Company, 

 member of the State Legislature" (1881), solicitor for the State of North Carolina (1886), 

 and district attorney for the United States, 1893-97. He was elected Governor of North 

 Carolina in 1905. 



