GEORGE WILLIAM GLASS
George William Glass, b ca 1890 in Lott, Falls County, Texas, d 1949 in
Boston, Virginia - a son of Thomas Franklin and Alice (Hodges) Glass. He
graduated from Lott High School, and from a business school in Waco, Texas. He
married Judith Ligon - a daughter of Thomas Henry and Elizabeth (Harwell) Ligon
- both natives of Fayette County, Texas. Judith (Ligon) Glass died in 1963 in
Marlin, Falls County, Texas. Her father owned a drug store in Lott, Texas for
many years. The Ligon family (with cousins, the Blanton family) came to Texas by
wagon train from Warren County, Virginia. The Harwell family came to Texas from
Somerset County, England by way of LaGrange, Georgia.
George William Glass (usually called "Will"), was a bookkeeper in a
lumber yard in Lott -later becoming a cashier in the Marlin National Bank. He
moved to Marlin in 1909, and remained with the bank until 1933 - having become
First Vice President and Chair- man of the Board. In 1934, he moved his family
to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he worked for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation as liquidator of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Company until his
retirement. Resettling in Boston, Virginia, he died there in 1949, and his
widow, Judith (Ligon) Glass relocated back to Marlin, Texas, where she died in
1963. George William and Judith (Ligon) Glass had four children: Mary Louise who
married Harold H. Young, Alice who married Charles Marsh, George William, Jr.,
and Thomas Samuel.
During his years in Marlin, "Will" served in many capacities. He was an
officer of the old Commercial Club (forerunner to the Chamber of Commerce),
president of the Chamber of Commerce, a member and president of the Board of
Trustees of Marlin Independent School District, and the first president of the
Rotary Club in Marlin - a position in which he was followed by his brothers,
Cecil, Thomas, and Fred Glass.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 191 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
