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Rh the Potomac flats to the purposes of a public park. It is the consummation of a work of years, prosecuted faithfully under every discouragement and setback, by one public-spirited and courageous man, Mr. Charles C. Glover, who has already laid the city under great obligations by labor and achievement in other important directions. It is to Mr. Glover that we owe the realization of Rock Creek park, also lasting gratitude for his potent help in the matter of the new Corcoran art gallery. It is to him that we are now indebted for this last and crowning achievement at present under discourse, against every unjust opposition; he has labored patiently and bravely for years, alone, sustained only by his personal influence and force; he has confronted and prevailed over the apathy and prejudice of Congress. Mr. Glover secured the passage of the bill, and it is him we have to thank for the assured park. It should be called 'Glover Park' by every rule of justice and propriety, but whatever name they give it, we shall all know that we are indebted for it to the unselfish and public-spirited efforts of our distinguished fellow-citizen, Charles Carroll Glover."

The location of the sites for the new Protestant Episcopal cathedral, overlooking the city of Washington, north of Georgetown, and of the American university, a little further out, are also to be credited to Mr. Glover, who is a trustee of both institutions. Among other places of honor held by him, may be mentioned the following: Vice-president of the Capital Traction Company; formerly vice-president of the National Safe Deposit and Trust Company; member and ex-president Washington Stock Exchange; vice-president and treasurer of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; member of the Washington National Monument Society; member of the commission to receive funds for Martinique sufferers; and member of the Federal Commission on changing the date of inauguration of the President of the United States. He is also connected with numerous clubs, and fraternal organizations. The president, through Chairman Cortelyou, in 1905, offered Mr. Glover the chairmanship of the Inaugural Committee, but owing to business engagements he was compelled to decline.

On January 10, 1878, Mr. Glover married Miss Annie Cunningham Poor, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Poor, of the United States navy. They have two children, Elizabeth Lindsay, wife of Jonkheer R. de Marees van Swinderen, Minister of the Netherlands to the United States, and Charles Carroll, Jr.