Background
McGlynn was born at Stockton, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1878, the son of Daniel and Bridget McGlynn.
McGlynn was born at Stockton, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1878, the son of Daniel and Bridget McGlynn.
The father immigrated to the United States in 1866 and worked as a coal miner, and the son was educated at Saint Mary"s Roman Catholic School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Around 1900, McGlynn formed a partnership with an older, more established architect, Ben Davey, Junior. That year, they completed the new Saint Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Lee Park, near Wilkes-Barre, to which they each donated a stained glass window.
In the 1900 census at Wilkes-Barre, McGlynn gave his age as 23 and his occupation as architect. McGlynn married Elizabeth MacDermott on October 17, 1900. After Davey died in December 1901, McGlynn took over full ownership of the practice.
McGlynn died in 1918.