Sanford Charles Gladden

1902 - Aft 1965  (63 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Sanford Charles Gladden
  Birth	6 Jul 1902	Whiting, Mississippi Co., Missouri, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1965	Boulder, Colorado, USA
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. Emma Keziah Gladden,   b. 14 May 1898, Whiting, Mississippi Co., Missouri, USA d. 3 Jun 1960, Oxford, Lafayette Co., Mississippi, USA  (Age 62 years)   2. Paul Bert Gladden,   b. 6 Aug 1900, Memphis, Shelby Co., Tennessee, USA   3. Sanford Charles Gladden,   b. 6 Jul 1902, Whiting, Mississippi Co., Missouri, USA d. Aft 1965, Boulder, Colorado, USA  (Age 63 years)
  Person ID	I273988	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2001

  
  

  Father	Burt Gladden,   b. 23 Aug 1864   d. 25 Oct 1925, Oxford, Lafayette Co., Mississippi, USA (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Avis Aline Hawkins,   b. 4 Jan 1873, Mound City, Pulaski Co., Illinois, USA d. 5 Jun 1936, Oxford, Lafayette Co., Mississippi, USA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1896	Charleston, Mississippi Co., Missouri, USA
  Family ID	F110522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  SANFORD CHARLES GLADDEN (b.-1902) Sanford Charles Gladden, the third child of Burt and Avis Aline (Hawkins) Gladden, was born July 6,1902 in Whiting, Miss issippi County, Mo. He attended grammar schools in Whiting, Mo., Monroe, La., and Batesville, Miss., graduating from the Batesville High School in June 19 20 with the second highest honors of the class. While attending high school in Batesville, he worked for the local movie theatre (the Rex Theatre), firs t as janitor and operator of the player-piano (this was before the days of so und movies), and later as cashier. In the fall of 1920 he entered the Unive rsity of Mississippi, where he specialized in ancient languages. For one year he had a room in Taylor Hall, a residence hall for men students (now replace d by faculty apartments). The next year the Gladden family moved to Oxford, a djacent to the University, and he thereafter lived with his family, During his junior year at the University he became interested in radio telegraphy, a nd became one of the first operators of the University broadcasting station ( WCBH, with a power of 10 watts). His interest shifted at that time from the s tudy of the classics to physics; and for the rest of his college program he s pecialized in physics. He received his bachelor's degree in June 1924. For the Period 1920-1925 he worked Part-time as a clerk in the J E Neilson Compan y, a department store in Oxford. In September 1925 he was awarded a graduate assistantship in Physics at the University of Kentucky, where he obtained the master of science degree in 1928. From then until 1950 he followed the profe ssion of teaching in colleges and universities in the southeastern and southw estern parts of the United States. From 1930 to 1945 he was on the staff of t he University of Mississippi. In December 1950 he accepted a position as Ph ysicist with the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National Bureau Of Standards. He was at first stationed in Washington, D.C., but transferre d in April 1954 with other staff members to the new facility established at B oulder, Colo. Here he has since made his home. He has never married. Sanford Charles Gladden, with assistance from his sister, Emma, and brother, Paul, r esearched and privately published numerous books of family history and geneal ogy containing the results of many years of effort begun years before by thei r mother, Avis Aline (Hawkins) Gladden. At least some of these books were ha rd-bound and 100 copies of each were usually printed. Distribution was made to selected family members and to various libraries chosen by him.