Obituary - Rev. William Henry Gleason, formerly of this place, died at his residence, 161 West 97th street, New York, Sunday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock; from the effects of grippe, after a long season of ill health.
Mr. Gleason was the oldest son of Rev. Henry Gleason and Cynthia Vandervorst Gleason, of Durham, Conn., where he was born September 28, 1833. When but a mere boy his widowed mother moved to this place, bringing her three children - William Henry, Gabriel Havens, and Maria Warring, with her - the latter now being the wife of Charles W. Payne. After they lived in this place for some little time, Mrs. Gleason married the late Jonathan Havens, by whom she and the children inherited an independent competency.
Mr. Gleason, having the advantages of a highly educated father in his early boyhood, was not backward in procuring an early education himself, and by the time he was sixteen years of age, was ready to and did enter Yale College, being a member of the famous class of 1853, which was composed in part of such men as Andrew D. White, Wayne MacVeagh, Benjamin K. Phelps, the poet E.C. Stedman, and Senator Gibson of Louisiana.
After graduating from Yale, he returned to this place, and for a short time taught school in the old academy which stood on "Mill Hill Lot." After this he went into the lumber business, on the street formerly known as West Water street, with Major D.Y. Bellow, the firm then being Bellows & Gleason. While in this business he was constantly called spending his leisure hours in the study of law, and after he retired from the lumber business he purchased the insurance, news and surveying business of E.Z. Hunt, when he went west in 1855, and carried it on for a short time in the now Lawrence building, and then studied for a short time with Hon. Henry P. Hedges and then with Messrs. Miller & Tuthill of Riverhead. After being admitted to the bar, which was about 1857 or 58, he commenced practicing in the rear room, second floor, of the building now owned and occupied by the Sag-Harbor Savings Bank, and was there located when he was partially burned out in the fire which occurred in the dentist Hall's office in about 1860 or 61. He then removed his law office into the front room of the Sag-Harbor Express office and remained there until the building was repaired, and then, returning to his old quarters, where he remained until he moved into the office now occupied by Lawyer Everett A. Carpenter in which he stayed until he went into the ministry in 1870. Mr. Gleason was mainly instrumental in establishing the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, and was one of its trustees and its legal advisor from its start he moved from this place. He was mainly instrumental also in the movement which consolidated the three school districts of this place into a Union School District, and of which he was a member of the Board of Education for several years; and was also one of the prime movers in the project of inducing Oliver Charlick to build the Long Island Railroad through to this place.
In his early life, Mr. Gleason took a strong interest in politics, casting his first presidential vote for General John C. Freemont in 1856. In 1864-1865 he represented the old First District of Suffolk in the Assembly - delivering there one of the most able of the funeral eulogies on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In 1868 he was nominated for Member of Congress, but this being a strong Democratic District he was defeated, though running largely ahead of his ticket. In 1868 and 1870 he was Registrar in Bankruptcy, which office he held until he abandoned his lucrative practice of law for the ministry; well does the writer of this article remember the words of the late Judge John Lawrence Smith, on bidding Mr. Gleason goodbye as a member of the bar, when he told him that he though he had made a mistake in abandoning the law, as it was conceded that he then stood at the head of the Suffolk County Bar.
In entering the ministry, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of this place, his mother wishing him ordained in the Presbyterian faith, of which she was a strong exponent, though he had already been called to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newburgh. At the Newburgh Church he remained until 1876, when he accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newark, N.J., where he was settled for ten years, and then he accepted a call at the Reformed Dutch Church at Hudson, N.Y., where he remained until his health failed him in 1889. Since that time he has lived a retired life, occasionally filling a pulpit for a short time for some of his brother clergymen. In 1881, he received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College.
Mr. Gleason was a member of the Presbyterian Church of this place from July 2d, 1854, when he joined by profession of faith, to the time he took his final charge as a minister, serving as a trustee for many years, and as a Ruling Elder from March 9th, 1856 to the time he entered the ministry. He was also the Superintendent of the Sunday School for years not abandoning that post until he removed from this place; and he delivered the historical address at the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the first Presbyterian Church edifice in this place, as celebrated in 1867. As a Sag Harborian by early adoption, Mr. Gleason had strong attachments for the place, as can be seen by the fact that though residing in other places for more than twenty years, but few of the summers seasons passed but that he came to enjoy the cooling breezes, he making this his summer home.
Mr. Gleason was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ellen Gladwin of Deep River, Conn., a sister of the late Mrs. Jennings, wife of Justice P.R. Jennings of this place, and by her there were three children, three of whom are now living, and the second wife was Miss Leila Seward, daughter of the Rev. D.M. Seward, D.D. of Yonkers, by whom there was only one child. Mrs. Gleason and this son are now living, who together with the with the three children by the first wife are left to mourn the early demise of a kind and indulgent father and husband.
The writer of this article, in chronicling the death of Mr. Gleason, feels that he is bidding adieu to a lifelong friend. The two roamed the wooded thickets and walked the streets together in early childhood; they interchanged visits between home and home; they corresponded with each other when the deceased was pursuing his studies at Yale; and he editorially assisted the editor of this paper in the first two years of its existence. In fact they walked life's rugged ways together from early boyhood until different callings placed space between them.
His funeral was attended from his late residence in New York, Tuesday afternoon, and he was buried beside the side of his wife and child at Newburgh, the other two children resting in Oakland Cemetery in this place.
(Sag-Harbor express., February 25, 1892, Page 2)
Obituary contributed by Aislin FAG# 46535342.
Mr. Gleason was the oldest son of Rev. Henry Gleason and Cynthia Vandervorst Gleason, of Durham, Conn., where he was born September 28, 1833. When but a mere boy his widowed mother moved to this place, bringing her three children - William Henry, Gabriel Havens, and Maria Warring, with her - the latter now being the wife of Charles W. Payne. After they lived in this place for some little time, Mrs. Gleason married the late Jonathan Havens, by whom she and the children inherited an independent competency.
Mr. Gleason, having the advantages of a highly educated father in his early boyhood, was not backward in procuring an early education himself, and by the time he was sixteen years of age, was ready to and did enter Yale College, being a member of the famous class of 1853, which was composed in part of such men as Andrew D. White, Wayne MacVeagh, Benjamin K. Phelps, the poet E.C. Stedman, and Senator Gibson of Louisiana.
After graduating from Yale, he returned to this place, and for a short time taught school in the old academy which stood on "Mill Hill Lot." After this he went into the lumber business, on the street formerly known as West Water street, with Major D.Y. Bellow, the firm then being Bellows & Gleason. While in this business he was constantly called spending his leisure hours in the study of law, and after he retired from the lumber business he purchased the insurance, news and surveying business of E.Z. Hunt, when he went west in 1855, and carried it on for a short time in the now Lawrence building, and then studied for a short time with Hon. Henry P. Hedges and then with Messrs. Miller & Tuthill of Riverhead. After being admitted to the bar, which was about 1857 or 58, he commenced practicing in the rear room, second floor, of the building now owned and occupied by the Sag-Harbor Savings Bank, and was there located when he was partially burned out in the fire which occurred in the dentist Hall's office in about 1860 or 61. He then removed his law office into the front room of the Sag-Harbor Express office and remained there until the building was repaired, and then, returning to his old quarters, where he remained until he moved into the office now occupied by Lawyer Everett A. Carpenter in which he stayed until he went into the ministry in 1870. Mr. Gleason was mainly instrumental in establishing the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, and was one of its trustees and its legal advisor from its start he moved from this place. He was mainly instrumental also in the movement which consolidated the three school districts of this place into a Union School District, and of which he was a member of the Board of Education for several years; and was also one of the prime movers in the project of inducing Oliver Charlick to build the Long Island Railroad through to this place.
In his early life, Mr. Gleason took a strong interest in politics, casting his first presidential vote for General John C. Freemont in 1856. In 1864-1865 he represented the old First District of Suffolk in the Assembly - delivering there one of the most able of the funeral eulogies on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In 1868 he was nominated for Member of Congress, but this being a strong Democratic District he was defeated, though running largely ahead of his ticket. In 1868 and 1870 he was Registrar in Bankruptcy, which office he held until he abandoned his lucrative practice of law for the ministry; well does the writer of this article remember the words of the late Judge John Lawrence Smith, on bidding Mr. Gleason goodbye as a member of the bar, when he told him that he though he had made a mistake in abandoning the law, as it was conceded that he then stood at the head of the Suffolk County Bar.
In entering the ministry, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of this place, his mother wishing him ordained in the Presbyterian faith, of which she was a strong exponent, though he had already been called to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newburgh. At the Newburgh Church he remained until 1876, when he accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newark, N.J., where he was settled for ten years, and then he accepted a call at the Reformed Dutch Church at Hudson, N.Y., where he remained until his health failed him in 1889. Since that time he has lived a retired life, occasionally filling a pulpit for a short time for some of his brother clergymen. In 1881, he received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College.
Mr. Gleason was a member of the Presbyterian Church of this place from July 2d, 1854, when he joined by profession of faith, to the time he took his final charge as a minister, serving as a trustee for many years, and as a Ruling Elder from March 9th, 1856 to the time he entered the ministry. He was also the Superintendent of the Sunday School for years not abandoning that post until he removed from this place; and he delivered the historical address at the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the first Presbyterian Church edifice in this place, as celebrated in 1867. As a Sag Harborian by early adoption, Mr. Gleason had strong attachments for the place, as can be seen by the fact that though residing in other places for more than twenty years, but few of the summers seasons passed but that he came to enjoy the cooling breezes, he making this his summer home.
Mr. Gleason was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ellen Gladwin of Deep River, Conn., a sister of the late Mrs. Jennings, wife of Justice P.R. Jennings of this place, and by her there were three children, three of whom are now living, and the second wife was Miss Leila Seward, daughter of the Rev. D.M. Seward, D.D. of Yonkers, by whom there was only one child. Mrs. Gleason and this son are now living, who together with the with the three children by the first wife are left to mourn the early demise of a kind and indulgent father and husband.
The writer of this article, in chronicling the death of Mr. Gleason, feels that he is bidding adieu to a lifelong friend. The two roamed the wooded thickets and walked the streets together in early childhood; they interchanged visits between home and home; they corresponded with each other when the deceased was pursuing his studies at Yale; and he editorially assisted the editor of this paper in the first two years of its existence. In fact they walked life's rugged ways together from early boyhood until different callings placed space between them.
His funeral was attended from his late residence in New York, Tuesday afternoon, and he was buried beside the side of his wife and child at Newburgh, the other two children resting in Oakland Cemetery in this place.
(Sag-Harbor express., February 25, 1892, Page 2)
Obituary contributed by Aislin FAG# 46535342.
Obituary - Rev. William Henry Gleason, formerly of this place, died at his residence, 161 West 97th street, New York, Sunday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock; from the effects of grippe, after a long season of ill health.
Mr. Gleason was the oldest son of Rev. Henry Gleason and Cynthia Vandervorst Gleason, of Durham, Conn., where he was born September 28, 1833. When but a mere boy his widowed mother moved to this place, bringing her three children - William Henry, Gabriel Havens, and Maria Warring, with her - the latter now being the wife of Charles W. Payne. After they lived in this place for some little time, Mrs. Gleason married the late Jonathan Havens, by whom she and the children inherited an independent competency.
Mr. Gleason, having the advantages of a highly educated father in his early boyhood, was not backward in procuring an early education himself, and by the time he was sixteen years of age, was ready to and did enter Yale College, being a member of the famous class of 1853, which was composed in part of such men as Andrew D. White, Wayne MacVeagh, Benjamin K. Phelps, the poet E.C. Stedman, and Senator Gibson of Louisiana.
After graduating from Yale, he returned to this place, and for a short time taught school in the old academy which stood on "Mill Hill Lot." After this he went into the lumber business, on the street formerly known as West Water street, with Major D.Y. Bellow, the firm then being Bellows & Gleason. While in this business he was constantly called spending his leisure hours in the study of law, and after he retired from the lumber business he purchased the insurance, news and surveying business of E.Z. Hunt, when he went west in 1855, and carried it on for a short time in the now Lawrence building, and then studied for a short time with Hon. Henry P. Hedges and then with Messrs. Miller & Tuthill of Riverhead. After being admitted to the bar, which was about 1857 or 58, he commenced practicing in the rear room, second floor, of the building now owned and occupied by the Sag-Harbor Savings Bank, and was there located when he was partially burned out in the fire which occurred in the dentist Hall's office in about 1860 or 61. He then removed his law office into the front room of the Sag-Harbor Express office and remained there until the building was repaired, and then, returning to his old quarters, where he remained until he moved into the office now occupied by Lawyer Everett A. Carpenter in which he stayed until he went into the ministry in 1870. Mr. Gleason was mainly instrumental in establishing the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, and was one of its trustees and its legal advisor from its start he moved from this place. He was mainly instrumental also in the movement which consolidated the three school districts of this place into a Union School District, and of which he was a member of the Board of Education for several years; and was also one of the prime movers in the project of inducing Oliver Charlick to build the Long Island Railroad through to this place.
In his early life, Mr. Gleason took a strong interest in politics, casting his first presidential vote for General John C. Freemont in 1856. In 1864-1865 he represented the old First District of Suffolk in the Assembly - delivering there one of the most able of the funeral eulogies on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In 1868 he was nominated for Member of Congress, but this being a strong Democratic District he was defeated, though running largely ahead of his ticket. In 1868 and 1870 he was Registrar in Bankruptcy, which office he held until he abandoned his lucrative practice of law for the ministry; well does the writer of this article remember the words of the late Judge John Lawrence Smith, on bidding Mr. Gleason goodbye as a member of the bar, when he told him that he though he had made a mistake in abandoning the law, as it was conceded that he then stood at the head of the Suffolk County Bar.
In entering the ministry, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of this place, his mother wishing him ordained in the Presbyterian faith, of which she was a strong exponent, though he had already been called to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newburgh. At the Newburgh Church he remained until 1876, when he accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newark, N.J., where he was settled for ten years, and then he accepted a call at the Reformed Dutch Church at Hudson, N.Y., where he remained until his health failed him in 1889. Since that time he has lived a retired life, occasionally filling a pulpit for a short time for some of his brother clergymen. In 1881, he received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College.
Mr. Gleason was a member of the Presbyterian Church of this place from July 2d, 1854, when he joined by profession of faith, to the time he took his final charge as a minister, serving as a trustee for many years, and as a Ruling Elder from March 9th, 1856 to the time he entered the ministry. He was also the Superintendent of the Sunday School for years not abandoning that post until he removed from this place; and he delivered the historical address at the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the first Presbyterian Church edifice in this place, as celebrated in 1867. As a Sag Harborian by early adoption, Mr. Gleason had strong attachments for the place, as can be seen by the fact that though residing in other places for more than twenty years, but few of the summers seasons passed but that he came to enjoy the cooling breezes, he making this his summer home.
Mr. Gleason was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ellen Gladwin of Deep River, Conn., a sister of the late Mrs. Jennings, wife of Justice P.R. Jennings of this place, and by her there were three children, three of whom are now living, and the second wife was Miss Leila Seward, daughter of the Rev. D.M. Seward, D.D. of Yonkers, by whom there was only one child. Mrs. Gleason and this son are now living, who together with the with the three children by the first wife are left to mourn the early demise of a kind and indulgent father and husband.
The writer of this article, in chronicling the death of Mr. Gleason, feels that he is bidding adieu to a lifelong friend. The two roamed the wooded thickets and walked the streets together in early childhood; they interchanged visits between home and home; they corresponded with each other when the deceased was pursuing his studies at Yale; and he editorially assisted the editor of this paper in the first two years of its existence. In fact they walked life's rugged ways together from early boyhood until different callings placed space between them.
His funeral was attended from his late residence in New York, Tuesday afternoon, and he was buried beside the side of his wife and child at Newburgh, the other two children resting in Oakland Cemetery in this place.
(Sag-Harbor express., February 25, 1892, Page 2)
Obituary contributed by Aislin FAG# 46535342.
Mr. Gleason was the oldest son of Rev. Henry Gleason and Cynthia Vandervorst Gleason, of Durham, Conn., where he was born September 28, 1833. When but a mere boy his widowed mother moved to this place, bringing her three children - William Henry, Gabriel Havens, and Maria Warring, with her - the latter now being the wife of Charles W. Payne. After they lived in this place for some little time, Mrs. Gleason married the late Jonathan Havens, by whom she and the children inherited an independent competency.
Mr. Gleason, having the advantages of a highly educated father in his early boyhood, was not backward in procuring an early education himself, and by the time he was sixteen years of age, was ready to and did enter Yale College, being a member of the famous class of 1853, which was composed in part of such men as Andrew D. White, Wayne MacVeagh, Benjamin K. Phelps, the poet E.C. Stedman, and Senator Gibson of Louisiana.
After graduating from Yale, he returned to this place, and for a short time taught school in the old academy which stood on "Mill Hill Lot." After this he went into the lumber business, on the street formerly known as West Water street, with Major D.Y. Bellow, the firm then being Bellows & Gleason. While in this business he was constantly called spending his leisure hours in the study of law, and after he retired from the lumber business he purchased the insurance, news and surveying business of E.Z. Hunt, when he went west in 1855, and carried it on for a short time in the now Lawrence building, and then studied for a short time with Hon. Henry P. Hedges and then with Messrs. Miller & Tuthill of Riverhead. After being admitted to the bar, which was about 1857 or 58, he commenced practicing in the rear room, second floor, of the building now owned and occupied by the Sag-Harbor Savings Bank, and was there located when he was partially burned out in the fire which occurred in the dentist Hall's office in about 1860 or 61. He then removed his law office into the front room of the Sag-Harbor Express office and remained there until the building was repaired, and then, returning to his old quarters, where he remained until he moved into the office now occupied by Lawyer Everett A. Carpenter in which he stayed until he went into the ministry in 1870. Mr. Gleason was mainly instrumental in establishing the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, and was one of its trustees and its legal advisor from its start he moved from this place. He was mainly instrumental also in the movement which consolidated the three school districts of this place into a Union School District, and of which he was a member of the Board of Education for several years; and was also one of the prime movers in the project of inducing Oliver Charlick to build the Long Island Railroad through to this place.
In his early life, Mr. Gleason took a strong interest in politics, casting his first presidential vote for General John C. Freemont in 1856. In 1864-1865 he represented the old First District of Suffolk in the Assembly - delivering there one of the most able of the funeral eulogies on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In 1868 he was nominated for Member of Congress, but this being a strong Democratic District he was defeated, though running largely ahead of his ticket. In 1868 and 1870 he was Registrar in Bankruptcy, which office he held until he abandoned his lucrative practice of law for the ministry; well does the writer of this article remember the words of the late Judge John Lawrence Smith, on bidding Mr. Gleason goodbye as a member of the bar, when he told him that he though he had made a mistake in abandoning the law, as it was conceded that he then stood at the head of the Suffolk County Bar.
In entering the ministry, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of this place, his mother wishing him ordained in the Presbyterian faith, of which she was a strong exponent, though he had already been called to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newburgh. At the Newburgh Church he remained until 1876, when he accepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church at Newark, N.J., where he was settled for ten years, and then he accepted a call at the Reformed Dutch Church at Hudson, N.Y., where he remained until his health failed him in 1889. Since that time he has lived a retired life, occasionally filling a pulpit for a short time for some of his brother clergymen. In 1881, he received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College.
Mr. Gleason was a member of the Presbyterian Church of this place from July 2d, 1854, when he joined by profession of faith, to the time he took his final charge as a minister, serving as a trustee for many years, and as a Ruling Elder from March 9th, 1856 to the time he entered the ministry. He was also the Superintendent of the Sunday School for years not abandoning that post until he removed from this place; and he delivered the historical address at the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the first Presbyterian Church edifice in this place, as celebrated in 1867. As a Sag Harborian by early adoption, Mr. Gleason had strong attachments for the place, as can be seen by the fact that though residing in other places for more than twenty years, but few of the summers seasons passed but that he came to enjoy the cooling breezes, he making this his summer home.
Mr. Gleason was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ellen Gladwin of Deep River, Conn., a sister of the late Mrs. Jennings, wife of Justice P.R. Jennings of this place, and by her there were three children, three of whom are now living, and the second wife was Miss Leila Seward, daughter of the Rev. D.M. Seward, D.D. of Yonkers, by whom there was only one child. Mrs. Gleason and this son are now living, who together with the with the three children by the first wife are left to mourn the early demise of a kind and indulgent father and husband.
The writer of this article, in chronicling the death of Mr. Gleason, feels that he is bidding adieu to a lifelong friend. The two roamed the wooded thickets and walked the streets together in early childhood; they interchanged visits between home and home; they corresponded with each other when the deceased was pursuing his studies at Yale; and he editorially assisted the editor of this paper in the first two years of its existence. In fact they walked life's rugged ways together from early boyhood until different callings placed space between them.
His funeral was attended from his late residence in New York, Tuesday afternoon, and he was buried beside the side of his wife and child at Newburgh, the other two children resting in Oakland Cemetery in this place.
(Sag-Harbor express., February 25, 1892, Page 2)
Obituary contributed by Aislin FAG# 46535342.
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