Bios: J. T. GLEASON, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      J. T. GLEASON,
  
  [p. 949] deputy registrar and recorder of Lawrence County, has been
  attached to this office since 1889, and is one of the best known
  educators in Western Pennsylvania and Southwestern Ohio. He was born in
  Knox County, Ohio, but was reared in Trumbull County.
  
  Mr. Gleason was a student at the Rock Creek Academy, but a large part of
  his fund of knowledge was obtained from private tutors. He decided to
  become a teacher and received his first certificate from James A.
  Garfield, and taught his first term in Ashtabula County, subsequently
  teaching school for seventeen years. In 1856-57-58 he was superintendent
  of the Front Street school at Youngstown. He organized the Kent schools
  and was the first superintendent, reorganizing them and causing the
  adoption of the graded system. Later he went to Akron and was
  superintendent of the old Middlebury schools. During the Civil War he
  was engaged in business at Pittsburg and after its close he resumed
  teaching, going to Missouri, where he organized the public school system
  and he was elected the first superintendent of Montgomery County.
  
  In 1872 Mr. Gleason came to New Castle and served one year as principal
  of the Third Ward School and one year as principal of the Jefferson
  Street School, later accepting a position as shipping clerk at the Aetna
  Mills. Several years later he was elected city comptroller, being the
  second incumbent of that office. From 1881 to 1885 Mr. Gleason was
  identified with a lumber company and in 1889 he was elected registrar
  and recorder of Lawrence County. He served through two terms and ever
  since their close he has served as deputy. Few citizens of this section
  are better known or held in higher esteem.
  
  In December, 1859, Mr. Gleason was married, in Fayette County,
  Pennsylvania, to Miss L. Rebecca Hought. They have three sons: Charles
  D., who is in business as dry goods buyer for Smith Bros. & Co. of Elk
  County Pennsylvania; J. Eugene, who is foreman on the Morning Tribune,
  of East Liverpool, Ohio, and Clark E. who is engaged in a grocery
  business on Croton Avenue, New Castle. Mr. Gleason is a member of the
  First Methodist Episcopal Church of New Castle, and he has served as
  recording secretary of this body for the past thirty years. He is a
  member of the Odd Fellows and has been secretary of the New Castle lodge
  for twelve years.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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  Updated: 7 Feb 2002