Glenn W. Garlock, Wisconsin editor and publisher, was born December 27, 1877, at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, the eldest son of William and Nellie Hudson Garlock. Following high school graduation he served on the staff of the Fort Atkinson Democrat and later became a post office clerk and operator of a small poultry farm. In August 1914 he moved to West Salem, Wisconsin to assume the editorship of the monthly magazine The Wisconsin Poultryman and the weekly newspaper The West Salem Nonpareil Journal.
In addition to his activities as a journalist, Garlock served for twenty-four years in the National Guard. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company B, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, which was called to active duty in the Spanish-American War, the 1915 Texas border expedition, and World War I. As a lieutenant colonel in the 128th Infantry, 32nd Division during World War I, he participated in offensives at Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, and Meuse-Argonne. He subsequently published a book about his experiences, Tales of the Thirty-Second.
Returning to West Salem in 1919 he continued his editorship of The West Salem Nonpareil Journal until his death in 1939 at the age of sixty-one. In 1935 the paper was awarded second place for editorial excellence among Wisconsin weekly newspapers.
