Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: James F. Gleason

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views
of county seats, etc.
Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1173

James F. Gleason, furniture dealer, came to Neenah in 1873; engaged in
paper making, in the paper-mill of A.W. Patten, for five years, having been
a paper-maker since he was fourteen years of age.  For the last eighteen
months he has been engaged in furniture business in partnership with Albert
Smith.  Mr. Gleason was born at Boston, Mass., May 9, 1837.  He was married
at Lawrence, Mass., in 1860, to Frances Augusta Morton, a native of
Gardner, Maine.