Joseph Meade Gleason, for many years special agent of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, was born at Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, on September 15, 1843, and was a son of Lyman C. and Harriet Tyler Gleason. He received a common-school education in his native place, and when sixteen years old he went to Louisville, Kentucky, to seek his fortune, living there until 1886. For a short time he was a clerk in a drug store, after which he lived for a few months at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but returned to Louisville and secured a situation in the office of James E. Tyler & Company, insurance agents, of that city. He became secretary of the Louisville Insurance & Banking Company, and occupied that position for five years, or until 1872, when he assumed the responsibilities of a general insurance agency, continuing in this work until 1886, when he sold out his interests and assumed charge of the business of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company for the territory embraced by about half of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, with headquarters at Cincinnati. This position he held up to the time of his death.
Mr. Gleason was a Republican in politics, but had never held nor sought any office. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer in Louisville at the time General Buckner threatened that city, and he was regularly mustered in the United States Army in the organization known as the National Home Guard, of Louisville. A very notable thing about this particular military body was, that it received compensation from the United States Government for services rendered, and then had the patriotism to turn the entire sum so received back into the United States treasury.
On June 1, 1865, Mr. Gleason was married to Mary A. Miles, daughter of A. Duffield and Caroline Miles. Their surviving children are Henry K., Howard S., Edward H., and Ethel H. Gleason.
Mr. Gleason was a man of high character, and was an excellent business man, just and firm in all his dealings. He possessed a spirit of broad charity, which endeared him to all who knew him; and he was a man of religious nature, and an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church.
The first signs of his failing health came in August last, but his untiring devotion to his work kept him at his desk until about two months ago. His infirmities increased, and he was forced to enter Seton Hospital, Cincinnati, on April 4. Urasmic poisoning subsequently developed, and he passed away, peacefully and painlessly, on April 14 (1908).
SOURCE: The Locomotive, Volume 27 (pg. 51)
by Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Mr. Gleason was a Republican in politics, but had never held nor sought any office. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer in Louisville at the time General Buckner threatened that city, and he was regularly mustered in the United States Army in the organization known as the National Home Guard, of Louisville. A very notable thing about this particular military body was, that it received compensation from the United States Government for services rendered, and then had the patriotism to turn the entire sum so received back into the United States treasury.
On June 1, 1865, Mr. Gleason was married to Mary A. Miles, daughter of A. Duffield and Caroline Miles. Their surviving children are Henry K., Howard S., Edward H., and Ethel H. Gleason.
Mr. Gleason was a man of high character, and was an excellent business man, just and firm in all his dealings. He possessed a spirit of broad charity, which endeared him to all who knew him; and he was a man of religious nature, and an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church.
The first signs of his failing health came in August last, but his untiring devotion to his work kept him at his desk until about two months ago. His infirmities increased, and he was forced to enter Seton Hospital, Cincinnati, on April 4. Urasmic poisoning subsequently developed, and he passed away, peacefully and painlessly, on April 14 (1908).
SOURCE: The Locomotive, Volume 27 (pg. 51)
by Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Joseph Meade Gleason, for many years special agent of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, was born at Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, on September 15, 1843, and was a son of Lyman C. and Harriet Tyler Gleason. He received a common-school education in his native place, and when sixteen years old he went to Louisville, Kentucky, to seek his fortune, living there until 1886. For a short time he was a clerk in a drug store, after which he lived for a few months at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but returned to Louisville and secured a situation in the office of James E. Tyler & Company, insurance agents, of that city. He became secretary of the Louisville Insurance & Banking Company, and occupied that position for five years, or until 1872, when he assumed the responsibilities of a general insurance agency, continuing in this work until 1886, when he sold out his interests and assumed charge of the business of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company for the territory embraced by about half of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, with headquarters at Cincinnati. This position he held up to the time of his death.
Mr. Gleason was a Republican in politics, but had never held nor sought any office. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer in Louisville at the time General Buckner threatened that city, and he was regularly mustered in the United States Army in the organization known as the National Home Guard, of Louisville. A very notable thing about this particular military body was, that it received compensation from the United States Government for services rendered, and then had the patriotism to turn the entire sum so received back into the United States treasury.
On June 1, 1865, Mr. Gleason was married to Mary A. Miles, daughter of A. Duffield and Caroline Miles. Their surviving children are Henry K., Howard S., Edward H., and Ethel H. Gleason.
Mr. Gleason was a man of high character, and was an excellent business man, just and firm in all his dealings. He possessed a spirit of broad charity, which endeared him to all who knew him; and he was a man of religious nature, and an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church.
The first signs of his failing health came in August last, but his untiring devotion to his work kept him at his desk until about two months ago. His infirmities increased, and he was forced to enter Seton Hospital, Cincinnati, on April 4. Urasmic poisoning subsequently developed, and he passed away, peacefully and painlessly, on April 14 (1908).
SOURCE: The Locomotive, Volume 27 (pg. 51)
by Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Mr. Gleason was a Republican in politics, but had never held nor sought any office. During the Civil War he served as a volunteer in Louisville at the time General Buckner threatened that city, and he was regularly mustered in the United States Army in the organization known as the National Home Guard, of Louisville. A very notable thing about this particular military body was, that it received compensation from the United States Government for services rendered, and then had the patriotism to turn the entire sum so received back into the United States treasury.
On June 1, 1865, Mr. Gleason was married to Mary A. Miles, daughter of A. Duffield and Caroline Miles. Their surviving children are Henry K., Howard S., Edward H., and Ethel H. Gleason.
Mr. Gleason was a man of high character, and was an excellent business man, just and firm in all his dealings. He possessed a spirit of broad charity, which endeared him to all who knew him; and he was a man of religious nature, and an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church.
The first signs of his failing health came in August last, but his untiring devotion to his work kept him at his desk until about two months ago. His infirmities increased, and he was forced to enter Seton Hospital, Cincinnati, on April 4. Urasmic poisoning subsequently developed, and he passed away, peacefully and painlessly, on April 14 (1908).
SOURCE: The Locomotive, Volume 27 (pg. 51)
by Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
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