Steuben-Republican                                          Feb./Mar. 1887

        MYRON M. GLEASON                ( 1 April 1846- 25 Feb. 1887 )

        Myron M. Gleason was born April 4, 1846, and died at Morrill, Brown
County, Kansas, Friday February 25, 1887, aged nearly 41 years.  He was
well known to the people of this county, where he was born, and where he
had lived a considerable part of his life.  He attended school at Angola
and later spent a year each at Hiram College, Ohio and at Kentucky
University.  He made public profession of religion early in life, and at
nineteen years of age began to preach.  On May 26, 1878, he was married to
Hattie E., daughter of John Elliot, now of Salem, Steuben County.  He
labored at various points in this and adjoining counties, also at Warsaw,
Fort Wayne, Monroeville and Decatur, in this state, and for some time past
at Hebron, Nebraska, whence he had recently moved to Morrill, to take a
position in a school. 
        Mr. Gleason was a person of excellent natural abilities which he
had
dilligently cultivated and was possessed of noble impulses.  He was very
hopeful and very ambitious, and these characteristics of his nature,
sometimes, perhaps, took him further in some directions that prudence might
warrant.  He was a man, and was therefore not perfect--who is?  Faults he
had--who has them not?  Now, however, that he is gone--gone in the full
strength of his manhood--let those that knew emulate everything in him that
was true and noble, and think of him with that charity we all so much need.

        His memory will live in many hearts.  His wife with her three
living
children, is and will remain with her father in this county. 

Submitted by J.A. Childers
jeanannchilders@gmail.com