Gallup, Thomas Benton
Birth
- Thomas Benton Gallup was born 15 MAR 1856 the son of Elon Gallup (29 OCT 1821 - 16 MAY 1913) and Nancy Ann Guffin Broeffle (22 JAN 1827 - 10 MAR 1916) His brothers and sister were:[1]
- Elbert Gallup (14 NOV 1851 - 16 NOV 1937)
- Lucy Ella Gallup (17 MAY 1853 - 24 APR 1912)
- George B Gallup (29 JUN 1864 - UNKNOWN)
Education
Occupation
Marriage & Children
Thomas Benton Gallup married on 6 MAR 1878 at New Salem, Albany, NY Lira Esther Earl(27 MAY 1855 - 4 FEB 1927). Their children were:
- Earl Howard Gallup (31 MAY 1880 - AFT 1935)
- Elon Gallup (1 AUG 1887 - NOV 1971)
- Ernest Gallup (1 AUG 1887 - 13 AUG 1889)
Death
Thomas B. Gallup died 25 JAN 1935.
Obituary
(Editor's Note: The Bradenton Herald of Jan. 7, carried the following account of Thomas Benton Gallup, who died Monday morning at the age of 78, after a long illnests, at Bradenton, Florida.)
Thomas,Benton Gallup. 78, died this morning (January 7, 1935) at 4:30 o'clock, following an illness of two months.
Mr. Gallup came to Bradenton 27 years ago with his wife, Lira Earl, from his boyhood home, in Knox, Albany county, N. Y. in hope of recovering from a severe illness. With the exception of an occasional trip north, he remained in Bradenton, and was the means of attracting many from his section of the state, to Manatee county where a considerable number have become permanent residents.
Mr. Gallup had engaged in business undertakings in the city and vicinity of Albany, N. Y., but later on account of his health, had retired to the family homestead in Knox where he built a modern residence near the house built by his pioneer grand father, Squire John Enos Gallup, who came from New England in the early part of the nineteenth century, and settled in the Helderberg hills, the upper part of the Catskill range.
The house he built of hewn timber is still occupied.
Here twelve sons and daughters were born to Squire John Enos Gallup who for over a quarter of a century was justice of the peace in the highland township, twenty miles from Albany.
His eleventh child, Elon Gallup, was the father of Thomas Benton.
He was a man of wide reading and strong religious beliefs, shared by his wife Nancy Broeffle, who was of a line of pioneer preachers of Holland stock. Consequently, Thomas Benton was early baptized in the faith of the Christian church, which had established a communion in that section. Earnestly desiring to enter a profession, he entered the State Normal School at Albany, but was prevented by ill health from completing education.
After his marriage and later retirement to his farm, he established with th aid of his younger son a poultry business which has since under later management and ownership become one of the most notable chicken ranches in the east.
Mr. Gallup's health improving after his removal to Brandenton, he began farming here and made of success of celery and vegetable growing. After a few years he invested in a company? and built many homes. ...the inevitable passing of the ... After the death of his wife in 1927, he lived in very modest surroundings and devoted his time to writing and speaking in the cause of temperance and abstinence from tobacco.
He was a frquent contributer to the Open Forum department of The Herald. Many of his articles were reprinted in pamphletes and gained considerable recognition?
A consuming passion for work among the poor and needy and those in hospitals and prison characterized his later years in spit of failing health.
On a few occasions he made short talks in the schools, counselling the youth against the danger of forming wrong habits.
Altamont Enterprise — January 11, 1935
Additional Media
Sources
- ↑ www.BerneHistory.com Family Files
