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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3]
Dec 9, 2016 · John and Annie were childhood playmates and high-school sweethearts while growing up in New Concord, Ohio. They were married in 1943, just after John Glenn received his commission in the Marine...
Dec 8, 2016 · John Herschel Glenn Jr was born 18 Jul 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States. He was the son of John Herschel Glenn and Clara Sproat. John met his wife Anna Margaret Castor while they still infants and their parents became good friends. She was always known as Annie, the daughter of town dentist.
- Male
- July 18, 1921
- Anna Margaret (Castor) Glenn
- December 8, 2016
Apr 2, 2014 · Personal Life. Glenn met his wife Annie when they were children growing up in New Concord, Ohio. Glenn wrote in his autobiography John Glenn, A Memoir: “She was part of my life from the time of...
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. At age two, young John moved with his parents to New Concord, where his father opened a plumbing business. After relocating to New Concord, the Glenns built a home that doubled as a rooming house for students from nearby Muskingum College.
When John Herschel Glenn Jr was born on 18 July 1921, in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, his father, John Herschel Glenn Sr., was 26 and his mother, Clara Theresa Sproat, was 24. He married Anna Margaret "Annie" Castor on 6 April 1943, in New Concord, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.
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Dec 8, 2016 · John Glenn, the astronaut, never lost his popularity. He remained the man who had put credibility back into America's space programme and helped pave the way for the 1969 Moon landings.
