Cornelia Deaderick Glenn

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Cornelia Deaderick Glenn
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First Lady of North Carolina
In role
January 11, 1905 – January 12, 1909
GovernorRobert Broadnax Glenn
Preceded byCora Woodard Aycock
Succeeded bySue Satterfield Kitchin
Personal details
Born
Cornelia G. Deaderick

September 4, 1854
Jonesborough, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedDecember 9, 1926(1926-12-09) (aged 72)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Resting placeSalem Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Robert Broadnax Glenn
Children3
Parent(s)John Franklin Deaderick
Rebecca Lanier Williams
RelativesJames W. Deaderick (uncle)
Residence(s)Executive Mansion (official)

Cornelia G. "Nina" Deaderick Glenn (September 4, 1854 – December 9, 1926) was an American society hostess and temperance activist who, as the wife of Robert Broadnax Glenn, served as First Lady of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909. She was involved in the temperance movement and avidly supported her husband's 1908 Prohibition campaign that banned liquor statewide. A devout Presbyterian, she was the founder of one of Winston-Salem's first benevolent societies.

Early life and family[]

Glenn was born Cornelia G. Deaderick on September 4, 1854, in Jonesborough, Tennessee.[1][2] She was the youngest child of John Franklin Deaderick and Rebecca Lanier Williams Deaderick.[1][2] Her family were a prominent Tennessee family with strong political ties.[2] Through her mother, she was descended from Colonel Joseph Williams, an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and a delegate to the Hillsborough Convention.[3][4] Her paternal ancestors were planters and enslavers who owned a 5,000-acre plantation located in the Orange Mound area in Memphis. Her grandfather, David Deaderick, was a banker, businessman, and Revolutionary War veteran who arrived in Jonesborough in 1783 and later served in the Tennessee General Assembly.[5][2] Glenn was a niece of James W. Deaderick, who served in the Tennessee State Senate and as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and of Eliza Crozier Deaderick, the sister of Congressman John Hervey Crozier.[6][2] Her first cousin, Adeline Deaderick, was married to Congressman John A. Moon.[7]

Marriage and public life[]

She married Robert Broadnax Glenn, a lawyer and her distant maternal cousin, on January 8, 1878, in Knoxville.[2][8] Her husband was the son of her mother's niece, Annie Dodge Glenn, and grew up at Lower Sauratown Plantation in Rockingham County, North Carolina.[2][9] She and her husband had two sons, Chalmers Lanier Glenn ad Frank Glenn, and one daughter, Rebekah Williams Glenn.[2] The Glenns lived in Stokes County, North Carolina after getting married.[2] The family later moved to Winston-Salem, where her husband became a prosecuting attorney for North Carolina's Ninth Judicial District and later served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina and as a senator in the North Carolina State Senate.[2]

Glenn moved to Raleigh and assumed the role of First Lady of North Carolina, after her husband became Governor of North Carolina in 1905.[2] During her husband's inauguration festivities between January 6 and January 13, 1905, The Raleigh News & Observer reported that a large party of Winston-Salem citizens accompanied the Glenns to the capital city.[2] The formal reception was not held at the North Carolina Executive Mansion due to the fact that the mansion was under quarantine, as Louise Aycock, the daughter of Governor Glenn's predecessor Charles Brantley Aycock, remained in the house while recovering from diphtheria.[2] The Glenns could not move into the governor's residence until January 17, 1905, when the Aycocks were able to leave.[2] Glenn and her husband, one of her sons, her daughter, and her niece, Ann Dodge Glenn, resided in the mansion as North Carolina's first family.[2]

Glenn was known to be an experienced entertainer and elegant hostess. She hosted lavish and well-planned parties, luncheons, and teas.[2] As the official hostess, she entertained a number of dignitaries including William Jennings Bryan and President William Howard Taft.[2] She required that the servants served all meals, including breakfast, formally on full silver place settings.[2][10]

Glenn was known to be a very proper and a strict housekeeper and stern mother.[2] She was passionate about music and gardening, and was active in the temperance movement; firmly backing her husband's successful Prohibition campaign in 1908 that banned liquor statewide.[2]

Later life and death[]

While living in Raleigh, she was a parishioner at First Presbyterian Church. Upon moving back to Winston-Salem after her husband's term was over, she attended First Presbyterian Church there and was active in the parish's missionary causes.[2][1] Glenn founded one of the first benevolent societies in Winston-Salem.[1] She died of an illness on December 9, 1926, and was buried in Salem Cemetery.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/washington/obits/g/glenn227nob.txt[bare URL plain text file]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Glenn, Cornelia G. Deaderick | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
  3. ^ Revolution, Daughters of the American (February 5, 1917). "Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution". Daughters of the American Revolution – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Copel, Travis (December 15, 2021). "North Carolina Colonel Joseph Williams in the Cherokee Campaign of 1776". Journal of the American Revolution.
  5. ^ Paul Fink, Jonesborough: The First Century of Tennessee's First Town (Overmountain Press, 1989), pp. 43-45.
  6. ^ Mary Rothrock, The French Broad-Holston County: A History of Knox County, Tennessee (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1972), pp. 409-410.
  7. ^ Zella Armstrong, "John Austin Moon," The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee (Overmountain Press, 1992), p. 440.
  8. ^ "Governor of the State of North Carolina - Robert Brodnax Glenn". www.carolana.com.
  9. ^ Lindley S. Butler and Michael T. Southern (July 1984). "Lower Sauratown Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  10. ^ Ham, Marie Sharpe, Debra A. Blake, and C. Edward Morris. 2001. North Carolina's First Ladies, 1891-2001. Raleigh, N.C.: Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee and Executive Mansion Fund.
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