1908 Nellie Glenn

In 1908, Nellie Glenn was employed at the Michigan State Sanatorium in Howell. According to an article and the picture, as shown below, by Chester Clark, published in the Fowlerville News & Views in 1992, the caption read as follows:

The first women patients in the first Women's Shack when the Michigan State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis opened in 1908. Located in Marion Township, this facility was designed to be unheated, open-air the year around, on the highest elevation in the lower peninsula. T.B. was finally stamped out. Longtime Fowlerville lady Nellie Lansing Glenn was the first and only secretary of MSS when this photo was taken in 1908.Reportedly Nellie Lansing met her future husband, Dr. Glenn, at the sanatorium. They made their home in Fowlerville and, as the years went along, she became the village's historian and kept some wonderful memories and information that is now safely stored in the village offices. This last January, numerous squint shots showed the house they lived in at the southwest corner of South Collins Street and East Grand River. Be sure to check out these squint shots -- it is a beautiful house, both inside and out.