About Glenn Bastian

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    The following information has been researched, written and submitted by Kevin Daniel, University of Illinois graduate student of Library and Information Science with a focus on art Cataloging.

    Glenn Franklin Bastian was born 22 June 1890 in Fort Seneca, Ohio a son of James and Jeanette Dumont Bastian. His family, consisting of his parents, four brothers, and one sister, moved to Gas City, Indiana by 1900 where his father operated a boarding house. Glenn Bastian had many occupations; department store manager in 1910 in Gas City, clerk in a clothing store in Gary, Indiana in 1920, and a bank employee in Gary in the 1920s and 1930s.

    His WWI draft registration reports that he was 5' 9" tall , had black hair and blue eyes, wei...

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