I heard from our father's cousin Bill Gleason recently. I had come
across pictures of his Gleason grandparents during my research so I
wanted to share them with him. I wanted some verification they were
actually his grandparents so I could add them to the family tree. These
are not blood relatives but I am interested regardless. Bill and
Anne's grandfather Gleason was named Patrick and there are some
interesting coincidences there but that story will wait until another
day.
Anyway, I wrote to him and was very happy to hear back from him. His
letter confirmed these were the right people and included some
interesting stories about them.
Apparently they ran a dairy farm and these are pictures of his grandmother Delia
. Bill says:
"The two showing my grandmother in the laboratory were the most
interesting. The laboratory was a relatively small room behind the
kitchen at 78 Walnut ("the homestead")
. I never heard my father
or anyone else in the family talk about the lab or their mother being
the technician. I wonder how or where she got her training." The
Gleason family determined the picture on the right was probably taken in
1915, based on a study of the calendar on the wall in the picture
compared to a perpetual calendar. Now, that's the kind of research that
makes me smile!
Bill is older than our dad, Paul M. Ryan Jr., by a couple of years (he's now 87) so I was
particularly glad to hear from him and to know he's well enough to plan
to travel to Maryland next month to celebrate his son's 50th birthday.
How lucky for them!
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