Frederick Gleason
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For the American composer, see Frederick Grant Gleason.
Frederick Gleason (c.1817 ā November 6, 1896) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly Gleason's Pictorial, at the time an innovation in American publishing. He has been called "the father of illustrated journalism."[1]