Doctor William Thomas Gleason was born in Republic, Michigan, January 8th, 1879. He received his education in the public schools, after which he entered Sacred Heart College, at Watertown, Wisconsin. He then attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, graduating from the medical department of the University of Chicago in 1902. Thereafter for fourteen months he served as interne at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah; then for the next five years practiced his profession in that city. In 1908 he moved to Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, where he practiced up to the time he volunteered in the United States Army (July 28, 1917). Lieutenant Gleason was returning home from Camp Nicholas, New Orleans, on a furlough granted on account of poor health, when his condition became so serious that it was necessary to remove him from the train at Denver, Colorado, and take him to St. Lukes Hospital. Ten days later he reached Salt Lake City, Utah, and died in the Denver Rio Grande Depot there as he left the train (March 7th, 1918). His death was due to mitral stenosis.

Lieutenant Gleason was a member of the American Medical Association and of the State and County Association. He was also a fraternal member of the B. P. O. E. of Salt Lake City, the Phi Rho Sigma of Rush Medical College, Chicago, and of the Knights of Columbus. He left his widow, Mrs. Hazel Gleason, 733 7th Street, Ogden, Utah, who was formerly Miss Hazel Woodcock of Ogden and to whom he was married on March 5th, 1908, his son William Thomas Gleason, Junior, born June 30th, 1917, and his parents, Michael and Mary Wallace Gleason, of Gladstone, Michigan. At the time of Doctor Gleason’s death, White Pine County papers deplored the loss of so able a citizen and spoke of him as a man who “had an extremely attractive personality, made friends rapidly and was successful in his practice.” Full military honors marked his burial at Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, and a great number of Utah’s citizens paid homage at his bier. He had lived an upright and useful life, and in the end, went to his Maker in the most noble way a man can go.