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GLEED. Ambrose
GLEED, Ambrose (Gloucester, England, May 22, 1831--Menlo Park, CA, Apr, 29, 1896) Gleed came to the United States on September 28, 1849 and lived in Buffalo, New York through 1855 when he moved in Dubuque. (1)
On May 14, 1873 according to the Quad-City Times a half dozen on his customers from the Quad Cities had their stocks of liquor they had bought from him seized or had been jailed. Gleed, a British subject, intended to file a suit in the United States States court on the ground that the State had no right to forbid what the general government licensed. (2)
On December 4, 1874 a fire at his brewery destroyed 5,000 bushels of barley. The loss was estimated at $30,000 and he carried $15,000 worth of insurance. (3)
In the inquest into his death, a newspaper article stated that Gleed, a wealthy landowner in San Francisco, had died of heart failure. (4)
Source:
1. Ancestry.com search
2. Ancestry.com "Ambrose Gleed"
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.