Francis Harrington Glidden, Frank Glidden's father, moved his family to Maine to Cleveland in 1869. He started the paint business in 1875. It was the success of the paint business that made his family quite wealthy. Frank Glidden, who also worked in the family business, built several houses, one of which was the Glidden House in University Circle. | Source: Samuel Peter Orth and S.J. Clarke, A History of Cleveland, Ohio: Biographical (Chicago and Cleveland: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1910)Download Original File
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Samuel Peter Orth and S.J. Clarke, A History of Cleveland, Ohio: Biographical (Chicago and Cleveland: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1910)
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