San Joaquin County Biographies
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THOMAS F. GLEASON
In the death, on March 14, 1922, of Thomas F. Gleason, Stockton lost one of its prominent business men and highly respected citizens. His career was a busy and useful one, and while promoting the material welfare of the community he also gave active and liberal support to those measures which tended to advance its intellectual and moral status. He was familiarly known as Tom Gleason by his friends. His life was filled with good deeds and kindly thoughts, and all who knew him entertained for him the highest regard, by reason of his upright, honorable career. A native son of the Golden West, he was born in San Francisco in 1876, a son of Michael Gleason, a prominent business man and banker of the bay city. He was the brother of Mrs. John Geary, and Mrs. Cecil Doty, of Los Angeles; Miss Mary Gleason, James V. Gleason, and William H. Gleason, of San Francisco; M. James Gleason, of Palo Alto; and Robert Gleason, of San Jose. His preliminary education began in the public schools of San Francisco, from which he entered the California College of Pharmacy, being duly graduated from this institution. In 1902 he located in Stockton, where he took charge of the Central Drug Store for three years, and then worked for the Eagle Drug Company for eleven years. In 1909, Mr. Gleason made an extended tour of the Orient. In 1916 he became the proprietor of the Patterson Pharmacy, located at 441 East Main Street, where he was successfully carrying on business at the time of his demise.
Mr. Gleason's marriage occurred on March 27, 1910, uniting him with Miss Edna Capurro, a native of Stockton and a descendant of a pioneer family. Mrs. Gleason has been associated with her husband for many years in his drug business, and in the spring of the year 1922 took the examination and passed as a registered pharmacist. She is ably fitted to carry on the business left by her husband. Mr. Gleason was prominent fraternally, being an active member of No. 218, B.P.O. Elks, and No. 7, N.S.G.W., and of the Foresters of America, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Improved Order of Red Men, and the Yosemite Club, all of Stockton. He was a man of fine characteristics, generous and enterprising, and skilled in his profession; and his true worth and kindly life endeared him to all.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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