Charles L. Gleason

GLEASON, WEMPLE, FELCH, DANIELS, LAMB, CRAMER

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:13:37

Charles L. Gleason lives on section 28. This farm was entered by H. B. Wemple. Mr. Gleason has lived here since the spring of 1878. He was born in Massachusetts, in 1836. He is the son of Luther H. Gleason of Beaver township, Grundy county, who settled there in 1857, purchasing his farm of N. Drew.
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Mr. L. H. Gleason was born in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, in 1812; he learned the trade of a shoemaker, which he followed till coming here. He married Mary Felch, a native of Massachusetts. They have four children – Charles L., Etta, Halina, wife of James Daniels; and Martha, wife of Elijah Lamb. Charles L. married Mary Cramer, daughter of Samuel Cramer, born in Canada West, in 1843. They have two children – Grace, born in 1865, and Edith, born in 1868.
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Mr. Gleason was one of the first business men of Parkersburg; he located there in 1866, being the first who manufactured boots and shoes in that village. His farm contains 128 acres.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 424-425