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Lafe Gleason & wife & J. Jaeckel (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Harry Angstrom said:

  Found his obit in NY Times dated October 25, 1937. Lafayette Blanchard Gleason was Secretary of the Republican State Committee for 31 years, starting in 1906, and he was also General Secretary of seven Republican National Conventions. He passed away at age 74, he was born May 30, 1863. He was described as a political encyclopedia. He was also a lawyer who specialized in inheritance tax litigation. At his death he was a widower, his wife was Mrs. Frances Rich (Mc)Entee when he married her at Bridgeport, Conn in 1908, died in 1936. He had one son Gor(don?), by an earlier marriage.

• Wystan said:

  Quoting from a website: John P. Jaeckel (April 22, 1865 Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York - June 16, 1941 Auburn, Cayuga County, New York) was an American politician. Life His was born of German parents at Syracuse, N.Y., but the family removed soon to Auburn, N.Y. He worked as a money-order clerk at the Auburn post-office, and later as a confidential clerk and bookkeeper for a coal dealer. As a Republican, he was Auburn City Treasurer from 1895 to 1898. He was New York State Treasurer from 1899 to 1902, elected in 1898 and 1900. On October 29, 1901, he was the foreman of the witnesses to the execution of Leon Czolgosz [the assassin of President William McKinley] at Auburn State Prison. He was President of the State Prison Commission, and a member of the Board of Parole which in 1904 denied number racketeer Albert J. Adams's application for parole. In 1920, he was chosen the first Auburn City Manager.

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks Wystan, for the biographical info on John Jaeckel. We will enhance the title information the next time we update the record.

• Richard Norton said:

  I started a Wikipedia biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Blanchard_Gleason Here is the existing one on the other chap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._Jaeckel