Martin Gleason

GLEASON, BARRY

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:14:06

Martin Gleason was born in Ireland, in November, 1829. In 1848 he came to America, and first located in Orange county, New York, where he remained until the spring of 1855. He then came west and settled in Dubuque county, Iowa, where he lived three years, and in the spring of 1858, moved to Butler county, with an ox team. He traded his property in Dubuque county for 120 acres of land on section 34 of Shell Rock township. During the summer of 1858, he built a small log house on his place, in which the family lived for fourteen years, and it was then supplanted by his present fine residence. Mr. Gleason now owns a fine farm of 400 acres. He was married in 1855 to Miss Anna Barry, who is a native of Ireland. Eight children have been born to them of whom only – William Lewis – is now living.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 697-698