| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - One of two sons of a father from Ireland who abandoned the family (his brother died when Jackie was a boy), Gleason was raised by a loving, but troubled, overworked Irish mother who died when he was 19. (Gleason sometimes pushed the date of death up three years to 16; biographer William A. Henry III wrote of Gleason's tendency to both exaggerate and obscure his hardscrabble childhood.) He attended
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