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Gleason, Dr. Silas O., a founder of the Gleason Sanitarium, known favorably for many years as the Elmira Water
Cure, was born in Coleraine, Mass., November 3, 1818, a son of Silas Gleason, a farmer who moved to Vermont in
1823, where he died about 1870 at the age of sixty-four years. Dr. Silas O. was educated in the common schools
until twenty one years old, was brought up to manual labor, and received some schoolingalso at Whitesboro, Oneida
County, N. Y., paying for his board by milking cows, etc., and staying there eight months. He attended Oberlin
College two years, but hard work, too much study, and ill health compelled him to return to Vermont for a year
to recuperate, still, however, keeping up his reading. He then attended the Castleton Medical College of Vermont
and graduated third in the class of '44. He practiced at Carlisle, N. Y., for one year, spending the next two years
lecturing on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene in New York State. He traveled in Allegany County in 1847, where
he established the third Water Cure in the United States, remaining there two years. He then formed a partnership
with Dr. Jackson, now of the Danville Water Cure, and bought a hotel of Skaneateles Lake, which he sold after three
years to Dr. Jackson. He then went to Burdick's, on the east shore of Caynga Lake, where he remained one year,
moving thence to Elmira in 1852. Here he became associated with Fox, Holden, and M. Hale, who together built the
building of which Dr. Gleason has been sole owner for ten years. Dr. Gleason has treated 20,000 patients from all
over the world. He has the greatest number from July to October, among his guests having been Colfax, Sunset Cox,
and many other distinguished people. Dr. Gleason married, in 1844, Miss Rachel Brooks, daughter of Reuben Brooks,
a public man of prominence. After her marriage she took up the study of medicine with her husband and at the meeting
of eclectics in Syracuse Dr. Gleason introduced a resolution to admit women to membership, which motion he carried,
his wife being the first woman to enter any Medical College in the world which publicly opened its doors to women.
They have a son and a daughter. The son, E. B., is a business man and the daughter, Adele A., is a physician. She
was educated in Philadelphia and Ann Arbor. graduating from the Medical Department ot the last named college in
1875. and took a post-graduate course in chemistry and diagnosis in the Eye and Ear Infirmary with Dr. Knapp, of
New York, under Chareot, of Paris, in insane and nervous diseases, and has been in practice with her father since
graduating.
From:
Our County and its people
A History of the Valley and County of Chemung
BY: Ausburn Towner
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1892
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