Homer A. Glore

Homer Alonzo Glore (1874–1944) was an American medical doctor and politician who served as the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia when it was incorporated in 1912. He also served as postmaster of the Mableton Drug Store and Post Office from 1921 to 1938.

Ancestry The Glore family history in the United States can be traced back to Virginia, when in 1717, Michael Glore arrived on a ship from Holland.

Early life and career

Homer Alonzo Glore was born in 1874 to James Robert Glore and his wife Mary Frances Alexander Glore. His father was notable for being the first white child born in the Cherokee village of Sweetwater. Glore had a younger brother called Honor M. Glore and a sister called Alice Glore who married Robert E. Daniell and had eight children.

Mayor of Mableton Mableton was incorporated on August 19, 1912 and the legislation incorporating the city stated that the municipal government of the town be vested in a mayor and four councilmen who had to be bona fide residents of said town for six months preceding their election to office. It also stated that the regular term of office for the mayor and councilmen was one year. Glore did not seek reelection and was succeeded by W.H. Stroud. On August 17, 1916, the town's charter was repealed and Mableton was disincorporated. Glore was the postmaster at Mableton for over 16 years until 1938, when he resigned due to ill health.

Cecil was a teacher at Mableton Grammar School and married Roy Franklin Daniell in 1916, they had no children. Homer was an attorney for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. Harold was an attorney for the Pullman Company from 1930 to 1946 before becoming a law assistant to the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1948 to 1960 and working in private law practice from 1960 until his retirement in 1985. The brothers had a law firm together in Mableton called Glore & Glore and both were members of the Cobb County Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association and Old War Horse Lawyers Club. Harold would later write a book about the history of his family and Mableton and upon his death he had no surviving immediate relatives.