Volume III: Biographies

GLEASON, John

Studio employee (1912-1913)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: John Gleason was employed by the Thanhouser Company in 1912 and 1913.

Biographical Notes: John Gleason was a Thanhouser employee in 1912 and attended the Thanhouser outing held for employees and friends on September 7, 1912. At the event he won the men's potato race. He was on the floor committee for the Thanhouser employees' masquerade ball held at Germania Hall, New Rochelle, on Monday evening, March 31, 1913.

Note: Jack Gleason, possibly the same person, was listed in the New Rochelle directory as an actor in 1916. At the time he lived with Walter Gleason, also an actor, at 21 Lincoln Street.

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