Francis (Frank) Kinne Glew was born in Muskegon, Michigan to Charles F. Glew and Lorretta (Kinne) Glew in September of 1895. He relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1920, after a short amateur boxing career and newspaper advertising work with the Muskegon Chronicle. In Grand Rapids he continued to box with the YMCA and worked for an advertising agency. Frank married Mildred O. Sandberg in June of 1924 and, that same year, he opened his own advertising firm. Together, Frank and Mildred had two children, Virginia and Dale.

Glew wrote thousands of essays and poems in his lifetime. Many of them were published in West Michigan newspapers. Frank was a frequent contributor to the Grand Rapids Press’ Public Pulse column. He died in June of 1966 at the age of 70 and is buried at Rest Lawn Memorial Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.