From the genealogy: Descendants of Thomas Gleason, by Barber White, 1909.
Anson Gleason was born in Manchester, CT May 2, 1797 and died in Brooklyn, NY February 24, 1885. He was married in Manchester, CT on October 26, 1826, to Bethia W., daughter of Eleazar Tracy. She was born June 20, 1803 in Manchester, CT, and died in Brooklyn, NY on October 13, 1886. They had eight children.
In January 1823, Gleason left for the Southwest, to be a missionary to the Choctaw indians. He returned to Connecticut in 1826 to marry his wife, then returned to the Southwest, where his first two children were born. Upon returning to Connecticut in 1830, he became a missionary to the Mohegans in Connecticut. In 1835 he was ordained as a Congregational minister, and worked with the Mohegans for a total of 16 years. From 1858-1861 he worked on the Six Nations Cattaraugus Reservation, and then did city mission work in Rochester, Utica, and Brooklyn. He and his wife were buried in old Yantic Cemetery in Norwich, CT. He was known to all as "Father Gleason."
(Gleason's ancestry: Thomas1, William2, John3, John4, Obadiah5, Moses6)