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Glick family

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Biographical Information

The Glick family of Lafayette, Indiana includes the descendants of Benjamin Glick (1798-1885) who moved with his family from Ohio to Lafayette, Indiana in 1845, settling on a farm in Romney. Benjamin Glick and his wife had several children, including Elias B., Clarissa (or Clara), Rufus, Monroe, and others, though there are discrepancies in their names.

Dr. Elias B. Glick married Henrietta Oyler (or Oiler) and served as a surgeon and later became mayor of Lafayette, serving two terms. He and Henrietta had three children, Benjamin, Clara (or Callie), and Sallie (or Sarah). Both Clara and Sallie attended Purdue University.

Clarissa (or Clara) Glick married John Barr McCutcheon and they had four children, George Barr, John Tinney, Ben, and Jessie. John Barr served as a captain in the civil war and later as a sheriff of Tippecanoe County and treasurer in Lafayette. John Tinney and George Barr both attended Purdue. John Tinney became a famous cartoon artist and won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. George Barr became a famed novelist.

Citation:
Prosser, F. Jr. (1930, August). Glick family. MSS 35, Glick and Prosser family papers, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries.
Citation:
Reser, W. (n.d.). The Story of the McCutcheon boys. MSS 35, Glick and Prosser family papers, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries.

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Glick and Prosser family papers

 Collection — Communal collections box 94: Series MSF 529, Series 1; Series MSS 35, Series 1; Series MSS 35, Series 2; Series MSS 35, Series 3, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSS 35
Scope and Contents The collection includes papers belonging to the Glick and Prosser family, primarily those who were relatives of Sallie M. Glick and John Prosser. Materials include typed genealogies of the Glick family and the McCutcheons, who were descendants of the Glick's, a family tree for the Prosser's, photographs of Prosser children and Sallie and John Prosser's home town of Devil's Lake, and several deeds and receipts predominantly from Ohio that were likely inherited by John Prosser from his...
Dates: 1842 - 1930
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections