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Glasgow Tragedy: The Conley Killing of 1875

Ai image depicting the mob that looted Gilbert Linsey's Glasgow store room, 2026. (Source: ImageFX)

A deadly confrontation, a mob, and a Civil War veteran’s fight for survival ignite a two-year legal battle that divided the village of Glasgow. In the village of Glasgow during the spring of 1875, tensions simmered among the men working at the Glasgow-Port Washington Furnaces. Gilbert Linsey (1839-aft. 1890), an Ohio native born to parentsContinue reading “Glasgow Tragedy: The Conley Killing of 1875”