Daniel B. Gleeson (b. 1871)
	
Dan Gleeson was born in Ireland.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #1015561. July 1, 1916 in Sidney.)) He came into the country in 1897 and was a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers in 1915.  He was a miner on Sulphur Creek in 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #1015561. July 1, 1916 in Sidney.)) Gleeson was recruited as a sergeant by Captain George Black in Dawson and was in England by August 1917.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) The Canadian Yukon Patriotic Fund loaned returned soldier G. Gleeson $500 on 20 October 1919 to purchase an outfit for winter’s mining.((Yukon Archives, June 1920 Report, Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Enlistment. GOV 1654, f.29600-G.))
Returned soldier Gleeson registered for employment on March 1, 1920.((Yukon Archives, Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Enlistment. GOV 1654, f.29600-G.)) Daniel Gleeson was at Keno Hill in the 1920s.((//Polks Gazetteer,// 1923-24.))