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PVT Harry Melville “Husky” Glenn

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PVT Harry Melville “Husky” Glenn Veteran

Birth
Shelburn, Sullivan County, Indiana, USA
Death
12 Oct 1918 (aged 28)
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.4786616, Longitude: -87.3462098
Plot
section 14 lot 183 south haph
Memorial ID
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Son of Thomas W. and Mary A. Glenn
Major league baseball player in 1915. Catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Served in the Signal Corp., WW I
Cause of death: Influenza

Glenn, a left-handed-hitting catcher from Shelburn, Ind., played six games for the St. Louis Cardinals at the beginning of the 1915 season, going 5-for-16 for a .313 average. He finished the year with the St. Paul Saints, where he hit .296 over 63 games. He remained with St. Paul through August 1918, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Glenn served as an aviation mechanic at the Signal Corps' Aviation Mechanics Training School in St. Paul, Minn. In October 1918, he developed a bad cold which developed into pneumonia. He passed away on October 12, at the age of 28.
Son of Thomas W. and Mary A. Glenn
Major league baseball player in 1915. Catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Served in the Signal Corp., WW I
Cause of death: Influenza

Glenn, a left-handed-hitting catcher from Shelburn, Ind., played six games for the St. Louis Cardinals at the beginning of the 1915 season, going 5-for-16 for a .313 average. He finished the year with the St. Paul Saints, where he hit .296 over 63 games. He remained with St. Paul through August 1918, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Glenn served as an aviation mechanic at the Signal Corps' Aviation Mechanics Training School in St. Paul, Minn. In October 1918, he developed a bad cold which developed into pneumonia. He passed away on October 12, at the age of 28.

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