The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

OF NVEW YORK CITY.

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neighborhood of Prince and Spring streets (then out of
town), and commenced the erection of a large country
house, which was completed by his widow. It was the
custom at that period for all who could afford it to have
summer residences, more particularly after the great
epidemic fever of 1798. John J. Glover, Colonel Varick, Robert Benson, &c. had country seats in the same
neighborhood
Mrs. Elizabeth Glover, his wife, died in this house in
1835, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, a woman
of most remarkable energy of character, having passed
through the trying period of the Revolutionary war
sustaining herself and her husband by the exercise of
that energy.
John G. Glover had two sons, one of whom, John,
was lost at sea in returning from a trip to Santa Cruz,
in 1805; the other, Andrew, was brought up in the
counting-house of William Hill, and was for a short
time a partner of Jasper Corning, succeeding to the
business of Mr. Adams, at 213 Pearl street, Mr. Corning having been a clerk to John Adams. Andrew was
married, in 1825, to Pliobe McKenzie, and removed to
a farm belonging to his mother in Junius, Waterloo,
Seneca County, New York. In 1830 he was a member
of Assembly from that county, where he distinguished
himself by his advocacy of a sound policy, independent
of party consideration, and by the urbanity of his manners. Andrew Glover was a polished gentleman, and
for a long period was a leader of the ton in New York
society.
He died in 1835, leaving five children. The daughters of John G. Glover were Elizabeth, Sally, Jane and
Ann. Elizabeth died of consumption early. Sally,
married David, brother of Jonathan Ogden; David died
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