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GLEASON, Fred Elijah

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 201

Fred Elijah GLEASON, lawyer, Montpelier [Washington County, Vermont], was 
born 17 March 1883 at Montpelier, son of Louis Pomeroy and Ann Louise 
(TIMOTHY) GLEASON. [Louis Pomeroy GLEASON is very likely the "L. P." GLEASON 
of the business firms mentioned in the biography of Herbert Carlisle GLEASON. 
See the combined Washington County, Vermont, biographies of Carlisle 
Joyslin, Herbert Carlisle, and Richardson J. GLEASON.] Educated at Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton [Hampshire County], Massachusetts; Yale College, A. B. 
1905; and at Harvard Law School. Studied law in the office of Hon. E. H. 
DEAVITT; admitted to the Vermont bar in 1909. Republican; was elected city 
grand juror of Montpelier in March 1910, and re-elected in March 1911. Is 
secretary and director of Union Block Company, Montpelier. Has been 
secretary of the Montpelier Board of Trade since 1908. Member of the 
executive committee Vermont State Yale Association; secretary of the 
Washington County bar Association in 1910, re-elected in 1911. Is senior 
warden of Aurora Lodge No. 22, Free & Accepted Masons, of Montpelier. 
Episcopalian; secretary of Christ Episcopal Church. In 1911 he [Fred Elijah 
GLEASON] married [Miss?] Letitia Elizabeth BUTCHER of Cambridge [Middlesex 
County], Massachusetts.

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