- GEORGE GLEASON, farmer, Secs. 14, 23 and 24; P.O. Whitewater,
son of Thomas
- GLEASON; was born in Hartford, Co., Conn., in 1810; came
to Wisconsin in 1842, and settled on the farm he now owns of
234 acres. Married Miss Laura CLEVELAND, of Cortland Co., N.Y.,
who died in 1834, leaving one daughter - Mary J., now the wife
of Ira KINNE. Mr. GLEASON married Miss Lavina CRAVETH, of Cortland
Co., N.Y., in 1839; they have two children - Norman M. and Elizabeth,
wife of John THWING. Mr. G. is a Republican to the core; was
elected Assessor in 1862, and has been re-elected every year
since, besides serving one term in the Wisconsin Legislature
for the centennial year. Mr. GLEASON and family are members
of the First Congregational Church of Whitewater, and he has
served as Deacon since 1874. He makes a specialty of dairy and
beef cattle; has twenty milk cows, and usually turns off from
ten to twenty head of fat cattle every year, besides wool, pork,
etc.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 792.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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