GLEASON, Anson

[s. 284] : Born at Manchester, Conn., May 2, 1797. In 1822 he became an a istant mi ionary of the ABCFM, and in January, 1823, He traveled started for the Choctaw country. After eight years the long journey on horseback. of service among the Indians, the health of his family obliged him in 1831 to return north. He then came into connection with the Mohicans settled near Norwich, Conn., and a church having been formed, he was ordained as its pastor. For a time he was district secretary of the ABCFM in Vermont and New Hampshire; for ten years he labored among the Seneca Indians near Buffalo, and he afterward became a city mi ionary, serving with unabated interest until his death, in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 24, 1885. • GLENDALE: A settlement in Natal, S. Africa, situated on the Umvoti River, 35 miles N_. of Durban. Station of the South African Mi ionary Society. 284