Editing Glasgow, Missouri (section)

==History==
Glasgow was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1836, partially from land acquired from former Missouri State Treasurer [[James Earickson]]<ref>[http://www.treasurer.mo.gov/content/about-the-office/1james-earickson Missouri State Treasurer-Past Treasurers Biography]</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&pg=PA101 | title=Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Earngey, Bill | year=1995 | page=101| isbn=9780826210210 }}</ref> The city was named for James Glasgow, a local merchant.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n72 175]}}</ref> A post office called Glasgow has been in operation since 1837.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Howard |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=8 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009174643/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Howard |archive-date=9 October 2016 }}</ref>

The [[Battle of Glasgow, Missouri|Battle of Glasgow]] was fought on October 15, 1864, in and near Glasgow as part of [[Price's Missouri Expedition]] during the [[American Civil War]]. Although the battle resulted in a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] victory and the capture of significant war material, it had little long-term benefit as [[Sterling Price|Price]]  was ultimately defeated at [[Battle of Westport|Westport]] a week later, bringing his campaign in [[Missouri]] to an end.<ref name=BS>{{Citation|title=''Battle Summary: Glasgow, MO'' |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/mo022.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203165102/http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/mo022.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2009 }}</ref>

There is a historical record of extrajudicial violence. On January 20, 1891, an African American man, Olli Truxton, was killed by a white lynch mob in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite book | last =NAACP | title=Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889—1918 | publisher=NAACP |year=1919 | page=80}}</ref> On August 3, 1884, an African American man, Harrison Mickey, was killed by a black lynch mob in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A MURDERER QUICKLY LYNCHED |journal=New York Times |date=August 4, 1884 |page=1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1884/08/04/archives/a-murderer-quickly-lynched.html |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=A Colored Pic-Nic |journal=McCook Weekly Tribune |date=August 14, 1884 |page=2 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94056414/1884-08-14/ed-1/seq-2/ |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref>

The [[Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Glasgow, Missouri)|Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church]], [[Glasgow Commercial Historic District]], [[Glasgow Presbyterian Church]], [[Glasgow Public Library]], and [[Inglewood (Glasgow, Missouri)|Inglewood]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>