Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-01
THINGS or CURRENT INTER RESI-
A windhsm oouBp BOy in chi esgo.

A Vyindham CounV hoy In chicago.
presume many Of ne readers Of this pa
per will remember the gleason family, which
lived in wardsboro, Windham county Jo-
siah Gleason and his wife Susan Il. (MorriD
the father and mother (the latter woman
OF benevolenoe, whom many families there's
bouts will remember % account OF her kind
ministrations in tim OF sickness) reared Q
family each memberof which reflects cred
and honor upon thdr ancestry, IL l ma!
Judge Of all from wn. H., here in Chicago
To partioularize, thepsrents are dead Nh
tin j. lives on the id homestead there b
Wsrdsboro j. NJ IS cashier OF the JOB
Hancock Life Insuance Co., Boston, 81
VIM. H., Of whom | am writing Is liviB
here in Chicago AID has been one OF te
most successful OF pe many young VermoIt-
ers who have locate here, and this statendnt
implies a good denl in the way Of credhlo
the individual. lie was born Nov. lbh,
| 1S43, at the old lomestead was primarly
educated in the un,lic schools Ia Wardstloo,
which he attended when the season forbde
work on the farm. Finally he wac a stuant
! at the Springfield Wesleyan seminty, Spthg-
field, Vt, which hstitution he lsft who 2l
years Of age. Hethen gave evidshce tht he
possessed, and ehss always ma,ntainet an
independence and decision OF otAractef the
instincts of true manhood andthese blal-
titles, with his intrinsic clpscity, Dave
enabled him, by practicing then, to wit the
esteem and confidence of men of means,
character and responsibility, rs will Al pear
further on in this mention. Thslkind B ed
ucation that he received is that which sdpe Of
the best men who have come frlm Vetnont
or elsewhere in The east, have aAd OF the
farm there, in The simple but often excellent
schools during the winter months-conbin-
ing those primitive and best schools, nstuTe,
experience, and direct contact vith rel life
during early manhood, which its one for fu.
ture active duty and a useful Ice in tbs ser
vice of the public, IL called uppn, or in any
capacity; fts them for safe guardisns OF
public or private trusts. do not meat to be
understood that the books, the classic even,
should be neglected, but med the tttelAge
Of the schools and schoolmasters male stu
dents only, while those sternbT tutors, the
farm, the mountains, hills aud Waterfalls you
have in Vermont, the actual contact with peo-
pie who have become Injured to the ways of
the world, where all the coalitions are not
the smoothest or most favorable, ft the man
for practical life.
Such has been, essentially, the upoome Of
VIM. II. Gleason, and he can have thu salts
faction Of knowing that whAtever success he
has attained is attributable to his owl native
ability, to his integrity, to his inherent hon
or and purpose to do what be considers right
and proper. But to be more definite after
leaving school he went to Baltimore and en-
gagged In business two years, when ne came
to Chicago in 1869 aud engaged with the then
deputy sheriff. Galpin and Hanchett (the
former VeImonter) who were conducting
the business OF auctioneers besides their offi
oial business remaining with them up to
the time OF thu great fre in October 1871,
after which ht engaged with the Pullman
Palace Oar Co., for one year, when he WAS
appointed bailif Of one Of the courts by the
sheriff and held hat position until the cleo
tion OF Sheriff Chas. Kern, Of opposite pol
itics, when he resigned and engaged in the
real estate and collection business with his
friend, Seth +. Hanchett under the firm of
Hanchett d Gleason, which continued until
the fall of 1877, when Mr.. Hanohett was
elected clerk of the probate court and Mr..
Gleason was made chief clerk a position be
held for five years. In the fall Of 1882 Mr..
Hanchett was elected sheriff of this county
and Mr.. Gleason became chief clerk aud dep
uty sheriff, which position he held until the
first of the present December, when he re-
signed to take tbs position which the people
of The South Town AS we call il here in Chi.
cego, meaning the south part of the city,
elected him, last spring, South Town col e.
tor, the ehrst who has been elected on the Re.
publican ticket the past five years, and this
by the largest majority of any candidate on
the ueket-an evidence Of his popularity
and strength. The importance and signih.
es4ce OF this position will not be understood
iniNeTmonf, perhaps, but when / state the
fset that be is required to give bond OF SS,-
80, 600 as guarantee that he will faithfully
collect and turn over 10 the proper suthori-
nes the state, town and whatever taxes be
collects, the k0en financial sense the Yer
monters are known 20 possess will at once
comprehend. The people Of the south side,
Vhere the great business interests OF the city
are located, in which tens Of millions OF prop
erty Is involved, know their interests and
chose Mr.. Gleason 10 collect the several mill.
ion douAss of taxes which they pay. His
bondsmen are among the most Substantial
men In chicago, aud represent fully S25, OOO,-
| 600 solid Assets. This one fact is enough TO
evidence, 90 some sHtent to your readers in
Vermont, The friends and acquaintance Of
his youth, what VIM. II. Gleason has alta n
| ed to il Chicago in the wakSe having won
the confidence and high regrd OF bis fellow
citizenl TIE fact that he bSs been the trust
ed ana cOnnuentlal trlenu VI ohNih ooth =
Hanchttt, oneof our most uprigh public Off
cials the past twenty years, and that he COM
mands the conidence of the weAlthiest and
best men in this city to the extent Of their
endorsement of hh bond, the hrgest ever
given by any official holding q position Of
| trust, speak volumes AZ to his iategrity, ca
pacity, probity and high oharadeT. can
not say that be formulated his anture when
| young And mas carried out any arly formed
plan, but can say that the outo1me of the
life Efforts of this young Vermonter have
been grestly to his credit. He sAs popular
and he'd in high estimate by all sho had to
do withthe courts and sheriH's of6ce during
the several years OF his official connection
with item, and be will be missed by the
many b has obliged during that lime He
has beO successful in q fnanoh hl sense !;
among lis holdings is an interht in the
wholeses jewelry business OF @. u. Knight
& Co. = ermonters, also.
In le3 he married Jennie 81 Grow OF
this stat and they live at 2l27 Michigan Av-
enue. l. w.P.
| DhioRp nao 1909