Hiram D. Glass, a prominent dry goods and grocery merchant of Ripley, Tenn.,
is a son of Hon. P. T. and Sarah C. (Partee) Glass, and was born on September
12, 1849, in Ripley, where he was raised and received his first education,
finishing his literary studies at the University of Mississippi, and in 1868
graduating from the commercial college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and after
acting as salesman and bookkeeper in several large houses, in 1873 he became
the junior member in the firm of P. T. Glass & Son, and after several changes
the firm assumed the present style of H. D. Glass & Co. In 1872 he married
Jennie H. Palmer, who was born October 3, 1851, and four sons and three
daughters have brightened this union. Mr. Glass is an enthusiastic Democrat,
and with his wife belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. For fourteen
years he has been one of the enterprising business men of Ripley. He carries
a splendid stock in two large rooms — one filled with dry goods, the other
with groceries, and has a branch store in Hansford, besides dealing in cotton
very extensively. In addition to his careful business training he has a
natural capacity for commercial pursuits, and is a correct, successful
business man.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN