Jay Mark Gleason Papers 1933-1942

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Jay Mark Gleason Papers 1933-1942

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Correspondence, orders, official memoranda and notes re: his duties as chaplain, superintendent of chaplains, and welfare and public relations officer. Includes photographs collected for use in district yearbooks as well as copies of the yearbooks and other ephemeral Civilian Conservation Corps publications.

8 boxes.; 4 linear feet of shelf space.; 2000 items.

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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Gleason, Jay Mark, 1881-ca. 1955

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Born in Illinois in 1881, Jay Mark Gleason had held a parish in Michigan and had been an Army Chaplain with the AEF in France before coming to Washington state as the pastor of the Ellensburg Presbyterian Church. He resigned his Ellensburg parish in 1921, and apparently tried ranching in the Yakima area for several years. A Yakima County district elected him to the State House of Representatives in 1932 and he served as a member of both the regular and special sessions of 1933. In e...

Witt, Jean Gleason. waps

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...