From Landmarks of Monroe County, NY
by William F. Peck (1895)
Part III, p. 31

Gleason, Samuel W., M. D., was born in the town of Bergen in 1821, a son of Abijah Gleason, who was born in Ellington, Conn. The latter married Susannah Hinckley, and settled in the town of Bergen in 1809, crossing the Genesee River on a log. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, after which he returned to Bergen and engaged in farming, being also a captain of militia, justice of the peace, etc. He died in 1875 in his seventy-sixth year. Samuel W. was educated at Brockport, and studied medicine under Dr. Barnes Coon, of Ohio, also Dr. Robert Andrews, and he has been an active member of the profession for fifty-two years, twenty-four years in Bergen, Genesee County, N. Y., seven years in Kansas, one year in Michigan, thirteen years in Holley, Orleans County, N. Y., and seven years in Brockport, town of Sweden, where he is still engaged. In 1865 he married Harriet E. daughter of Samuel Stone, and they have one daughter, Adelle.