Albert Henry Glodo -Illinois (1869-1940) Flat top.
John Stephens
The name Glodo is synonymous with early hand crafted duck calls. The family of the nineteenth-century call makers elicit a particular sense of mystery and excitement among duck call collectors. Until 1990, it was thought that the legendary Joseph Victor Glodo, Jr. was the only member to have made calls. It is now known that many members of this southern Illinois family were involved in call making. These members include-Joseph Victor Glodo, Jr. (1845-1910), John Nicholas Glodo (1847-1907), Albert Henry Glodo (1869-1940), William Albert Glodo (1873-1955), Joseph E. Glodo (1889-1977), Walter Albert Glodo (1891-1970), and Arzia Emerson Glodo (1902-1979). We will probably never know for sure which Glodo was the first in the family to make calls. Joseph Victor Glodo is quite possibly the first Glodo to make a duck call. He made calls before he moved to Tennessee. It is believed that the calls made by the other members of the family who stayed in Illinois were of the Flat-top style and not all checkered. Victors calls have full rounded shouldered barrels, and almost all calls attributed to him are checkered. There are no family reports of Victor’s Children making calls. Other descendants of Jospeh Victor, Sr, who made duck calls include Joseph E. And Walter Albert, both sons of Albert Henry. Their calls along with their fathers were sold in a general store in Raddle, IL. William Albert of Grand Tower, was the only one of John Nicholas’s children to make calls. William’s son, Arzia Emerson was the last of the Glodo call makers. -excerpt from”Duck calls of Illinois’- Bob Christensen.