Norton L. Gleason    

NORTON L. GLEASON, attorney at law, Meadville, was born in South Shenango Township, Crawford Co., Penn., April 11, 1852, and is a son of Norton D. and Sarah E. (Hart) Gleason, both of English descent. His parents were natives of Trumbull County, Ohio, and came to Crawford County, Penn., to farm in 1833, settling in South Shenango Township, raising a family of six children, of whom our subject is fourth. He was reared on the farm and received an excellent education, finishing in the following schools, viz.: Edinboro State Normal, Farmington Seminary and Allegheny College. After this he entered the law office of Compton & McKay, of Meadville, in 1874, and was admitted to practice April 6, 1876; commenced practice in Meadville the same year, but in 1877 he went to Cochranton, Penn., where he remained in the practice until 1883, when he returned to Meadville. In our subject’s educational career he taught in all ten terms, and supported himself at college by teaching. His mother died August 9, 1870, his father May 28, 1880. He is an active member of the I. 0. 0. F., having filled all the chairs. Politically he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 741

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