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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Gallery Bios - Co Clare>IA
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:38:21 -0500


FYI - I am not related.


History of Buchanan County, Iowa. ed. C.S. Percival and E. Percival.
Cleveland: William Bros., 1881

Patrick Gallery was born in Clare county, Ireland, in 1825. In the year
1852 he came to the United States. He lived two years in Brooklyn, New York,
then went to Massachusetts, where he lived, near Springfield, about fourteen
years, working in a quarry and farming. In 1868 he moved to Buchanan county
and purchased one hundred and sixty acres in Fremont. He has since added and
now has four hundred acres in all, making a most excellent farm. The place
was unimproved, but Mr. Gallery has made a superior farm of it. He built his
house himself, and has a neat and pretty home in a fine location. He has a
young orchard of over one hundred trees, and is making improvements
continually. Mr. Gallery was married in 1856 to Miss Johanna McGrath, of
Tipperary county, Ireland. They have five children, born as follows: James
A., May 14, 1857; Ellen N., December 7, 1859; Daniel M., September 27, 1861;
Francis P., November 12, 1863; Edmund, August 23, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Gallery
belong to the Catholic church. They are worthy citizens and have a fine
home. Mr. Gallery is an industrious and business-like farmer; starting poor,
he has built up a fine property by his own exertions. He is a man of
intelligence and everywhere respected.


History of Buchanan County, Iowa, and Its People. Harry Church and Katharyn
J. Chappell. 2 vols. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914.

Edmond Gallery, a well known and representative agriculturist of
Buchanan county, is the owner of one hundred and twenty-seven acres on
section 34, Fremont township, and also has another tract embracing one
hundred and forty acres on section 27 of the same township, cultivating all
except twenty-six acres which he rents. His birth occurred in Springfield,
Massachusetts, on the 23d of August, 1868, his parents being Patrick and
Johanna (McGrath) Gallery, the former born in County Clare, Ireland, March
17, 1822, and the latter in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1828. Their marriage was
celebrated in Springfield, Massachusetts, Patrick Gallery having emigrated
to the United States as a young man of twenty-seven years. All of their
children were born in the Bay state. In 1869 the family came to Iowa,
locating on a farm in Buchanan county which the father operated until within
six years of his demise, which occurred on the 7th of June, 1900. He had
lived here for more than three decades and his death was the occasion of
deep and widespread regret. His wife was called to her final rest on the 8th
of September, 1908. In their family were five children, as follows: James, a
resident of Winthrop; Ellen, the wife of Michael Hogan, of Paoli, Kansas;
Daniel, a farmer living near Paoli, Kansas; Frank, a resident farmer of
Fremont township; and Edmond, the subject of this review.
Edmond Gallery was but little more than a year old when his parents
established their home in this county and here he acquired his education. He
remained on the home place until the time of his marriage and then started
out as an agriculturist on his own account, having since operated the farm
on which he resides at present. He cultivates the cereals best adapted to
soil and climate and also raises and feeds stock, both branches of his
business returning to him and a gratifying income. All of the improvements
on the property stand as monuments to his enterprise and energy, and in its
neat and thrifty appearance the place bespeaks the supervision of a
practical and progressive owner.
At Masonville, Delaware county, Iowa, Mr. Gallery was united in
marriage to Miss Alice Larkins, who was born in Chicago in 1874, her parents
being Edward and Delia (Ryan) Larkins. The father, a native of New York and
a carpenter by trade, passed away at Flint, Michigan, March 3, 1875. In
September, 1853, in Chicago, Illinois, he wedded Miss Delia Ryan, a native
of Louth county, Ireland, by whom he had one child, Alice. The daughter was
educated in Iowa, coming to this state with her mother following the death
of the father. She was a teacher in the country schools for five years
preceding her marriage. She has become the mother of nine children, as
follows: Eleanor, who was graduated from the Notre Dame Convent, at
Independence, Iowa, in 1913 and now a teacher in the Middlefield No. 2
school; Anna, who finished her studies in the Winthrop schools in 1914;
Josie; Alice, Edmond; Francis; Elmer; Walter; and James. All of the children
are still under the parental roof.
Mr. Gallery gives his allegiance to the democracy, exercising his right
of franchise in support of its men and measures. He is a devout communicant
of the Catholic church and is identified fraternally with the Foresters. In
the community where practically his entire life has been spent he is widely
and favorably known, having in the course of his upright and honorable
career gained recognition as a substantial and progressive farmer and a
public-spirited and loyal citizen.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm






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