Senator William Harrison Gallup View All Years

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William Harrison Gallup

Story County

One of the veteran journalists of Iowa. He was born in Schoharie County, New York, on May 17, 1840, and attended the public schools and a seminary, teaching school several years. He entered the Poughkeepsie Law School in 1859 from which he graduated and was admitted to the bar of Newburg. In May, 1861, Mr. Gallup came to Iowa, locating at Marshalltown where he practiced law a short time when he purchased the Marshalltown Times and entered upon his long career of journalism which continued with few interruptions for more than a third of a century. During the exciting times when General Grant was closing the coils around Vicksburg, so anxious were the people for news that Mr. Gallup issued the Times daily, which was the first daily paper issued on the line of the Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Council Bluffs. In December, 1864, Mr. Gallup removed to Boonsboro and established the Boone Standard. In 1870, he became the publisher of the Nevada Representative. He was an active Republican and in 1875 he was elected to the State Senate, serving through the Sixteenth and Seventeenth General Assemblies. He was the author of a law authorizing townships and incorporated towns to vote taxes to aid in building railroads. In 1887, Mr. Gallup purchased the Perry Chief in Dallas County and after five years sold the paper and, returning to Boone County, bought an interest in the Republican paper, in 1896 becoming the sole owner. In 1899, he established the Monthly Review and Advertiser. Mr. Gallup has never united with any church, but is liberal in religious belief; with his family he usually attends the Methodist Church. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity in 1867, but belongs to no other society. He was married August 26, 1862, to Miss Albina Dyer at Summit, Schoharie County, New York. They had six children.

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