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market, had at that time a rather noted horse named " Resolute.'* 

 This was a most vicious brute, a confirmed kicker and biter. It was 

 brought into the ring and young Gleason quickly subdued it to entire 

 docility. Thence they went to Wilmington, Del., where Oscar suc- 

 cessfully handled the noted horse, " Running Gale." At Dover, Del., 

 the father and son i:)arted company, the former being in broken health. 

 The elder Gleason returned to Vermont, taking with him the famous 

 " buckskin " mare, and a short time afterward he died. 



Oscar Gleason kept on in the chosen enterprise of his life, and in the 

 spring of 1879, at the village of Dunmore, among the mountains of 

 Pennsylvania, met with an experience that was one of the most import- 

 ant in his whole life. He there made the acquaintance of Miss Kath- 

 leen E. Jordan, a native of that place. Before long he persuaded her 

 to become his wife, and she has ever since been his constant and sympa- 

 thetic companion, never missing one of his performances, and taking 

 the deepest possible interest in his work. '' It is to her quick and dis- 

 cerning sight," he says, "that I owe the success of my career." 



After his marriage. Professor Gleason went to York, in Southern 

 Pennsylvania, and made that place his lieadquarters for four months, 

 forming a class of over 1,600 members at $2 per head. At the 

 termination of the school he gave a street parade, wherein were 

 over 600 mounted men, headed by himself as Marshal, driving a four- 

 in-hand team of black horses. Directly after this parade he gave an 

 exhibition, free to everybody, handling a very vicious horse, and im- 

 mediately after the exhibition he gave a dinner to all the members of 

 his class. Soon after he left for Hagerstown, Md. At this place he 

 remained fir two months. Amonsj the manv hundred horses he 

 handled while there was the celebrated " Kentucky Prince," owned by 

 John Cost, and he thoroughly broke him so that he could make him 

 do almost everything but talk. He had him so thoroughly under con- 

 trol that Mr. Cost was very anxious for him to drive him around to 

 the surrounding villages, where he was giving lessons to classes already 

 formed. This he very readily did, as everybody at Hagerstown knew 

 this horse, and was afraid of him ; but he had him under such good 

 subjection that his wife used to drive him, '* Prince" was very nervous 

 and high-strung, *'but I had him so th(jroughly in hand," says Profes- 

 sor Gleason, "that he would obey the word of command with the 

 rapidity of thought, ^yhile driving from Hancock to Hagerstown, 



