John Gleeson
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 283

John Gleeson, one of the founders of the town of Gleeson, 
has been identified with the mining interests of Arizona 
for more than a quarter of a century and is one of the 
pioneer prospectors of Cochise County.  His birth occurred 
in Ireland in November 1861 and he is one of a family of 
eight children, six of whom are living and of these five 
reside in the United States.  The parents passed their 
entire lives in the Emerald Isle where the father devoted 
his energies to agricultural pursuits.

The boyhood and early youth of John Gleeson were passed in 
Ireland where he acquired his education.  In 1879 he 
emigrated to the United States, first locating in Mt. 
Pleasant Iowa.  After a brief period there he removed to 
Breckenridge Colorado where he worked in the gold mines 
and did his first prospecting.  At the end of a year he 
moved westward to Tombstone Arizona, where he prospected 
for eight months an then went to Prescott.  After six 
months he went to Silver King, Pinal County but 
subsequently settled in Ray.  He there acquired some 
mining properties which he developed but later went to 
Hachita, New Mexico where for four years he was engaged 
in the operation of the American mine.  Ten years later 
he abandoned that undertaking and went to Pearce Arizona 
removing from there to Gleeson, which town he assisted 
in founding shortly afterward.  There in 1897 with 
others he located the Copper Bell Mine, one of the 
heaviest producers in the state and now the property 
of the Leonard Copper Company of Gleeson.

In 1889, Mr. Gleeson was united in marriage to Miss 
Elizabeth Cummings of Syracuse, New York, a daughter 
of John Cummings who is now deceased.  Her mother is 
living at the age of seventy two years and continues 
to make her home in New York.  Mrs. Gleeson of is one 
of the elder members of the family has become the mother 
of three children: Nellie, born in 1891 who was graduated 
from the Sisters school and completed her education in a 
Catholic Academy at Los Angeles; Edwin M. born in 1895 
who attended a Catholic Academy and a military and is 
now at home and Emmet, born in 1900 who is still attending 
school at Gleeson.


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