Editing Glasford, Illinois (section)

==History==
Glasford or Glasco as it was called in 1868, was named for its founder, Samual Alexander Glasford/Glassford (1824–1896).<ref>Glasford/Gazette: A History

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Samuel A. Glasford, whom arrived in Peoria County in 1842 from Ohio and was one of the early settlers of [[Timber Township, Peoria County, Illinois|Timber Township]], had the foresight to off lots where cornfields once stood. When the railroad was built by his farm residence, Mr. Glasford had the hindsight to realize Lancaster, Illinois would seek the railroad and laid out the town December 9, 1868, which became incorporated as a village in 1889.<ref>Glasford Gazette.  The Birth of Glasford; History of Eighty Years</ref> Glasco would become a center of trade and population along the new route of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, bringing many new settlers and stores to Glasco in 1868.<ref name=":0" />

The town has been called by many names in different publications; Glasford, Glassford, Glasco, and Glasgow, just as his name in Scotland where is father, Lord William Glasford was born, is Glassford but in America it was written as Glasford.