Frank Thomas  Glasgow

Biography

Frank Thomas Glasgow was born November 16, 1854 in Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. In 1874 he completed his B.A. degree at Washington and Lee, and in 1877 entered the University of Virginia for the study of law. Glasgow completed the law coursework in a single year, and graduated in 1878 with the degree of Bachelor of Law after winning the coveted orator's medal of the Jefferson Literary Society.

From 1879 to 1885, Glasgow practiced law in Fincastle, but then moved his practice to Lexington. He served on the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, was a delegate to the 1896 Democratic National Convention, and succeeded his father as a trustee of Washington and Lee. Among his ten children was the noted, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Ellen Glasgow.