the first female member of the American Concrete Institute. Gleason died on January 9, 1933, of pneumonia, and was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Rochester. She bequeathed $348,000 of her $1.4 million estate to doctors and institutions in the Rochester area, including libraries and parks. The Gleason Corporation remains in operation and retains a strong connection with RIT. The Kate Gleason College of Engineering at RIT was named after her in 1998, following a $10 Million donation from the Gleason Corporation. An RIT residence hall, Kate Gleason Hall, is also named after her. In 2010, RIT press published a collection of Gleason's letters. Notes References Further reading External links ASME biography 1865 births 1933 deaths American women engineers American women in business Cornell University College of Engineering alumni Rochester Institute of Technology alumni American people of Irish descent Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) Burials in New York (state) Place of death missing 19th-century American engineers 20th-century American engineers 19th-century women engineers 20th-century women engineers 20th-century American women 19th-century American women Businesspeople from Rochester, New York