Gallup, Thomas Benton

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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:
• 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

Earnestly desiring to enter a profession, he entered the State Normal School at Albany, but was prevented by ill health from completing education.

Occupation

After his marriage and later retirement to his farm, he established with the 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.

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) who married Fannie Mae Skinner, the daughter of William C. Skinner
• Ernest Gallup (1 AUG 1887 - 13 AUG 1889)

Death

Thomas Benton Gallup died January 7, 1935.

Obituary

Thomas Benton Gallup Obituary - Altamont Enterprise — January 11, 1935

Note: Original was difficult to read.

Father of County Judge Gallup Dies at Florida Home

Moved From Knox to Florida over 25 Years Ago For His Health

(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 the 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.

Devoted to the church from his early manhood, he became a member of the First Presbyterian church in Bradenton and with his wife later helped to establish the new congregation of the Westminster church of which he was for many years an elder and a diligent worker on all of its activities.

His interest in church work on broader lines was shown in his attendance at community services and community midday prayer meetings.

During many years he was active in work for the community connected with the chamber of commerce and other civic and cultural organizations and the W. C. T. U.

For the past two years, he spent much time writing verse on religious subjects, and a few hymn, one of which, set to music by Mrs. H. C. Miller, has been considered of exceptional merit.

His life constantly revealed characteristics of hi New England Puritan ancestry, tracing further back to the Puritan exodus from Southern England and an earlier ancient Welsh origin of bardic and imaginative spirit.

He was a direct descendant of Captain John Gallup, who came of a long line established line occupying Strode Manor of Dorset England, enumerated in the Doomsday Book. Captain Gallup came to Boston with John Winthrop in 1630? and was given to meritorious services. Gallup's Island in Boston Harbor between George's Island and the Brewsters, which is now the U. S. quarantine station. He was founder of the First Church of Boston and also owned a house and wharf in the west end of the early settlement.

His descendants removed to Connecticut and then to Knox, ALbany COunty, N. Y.

The death of Mr. Gallu[ removes one of the comparitively small number of those who came here from other sections, in search of health more than a quarter of a century ago.

He is survived by two sons, Judge Earl H. Gallup, county judge of Albany County, N. Y. and Elon Gallup of East Berne, Albany county. Also by two brother, Elbert Gallup of Schenectady, N. Y. and Geo. Brewster Gallup of Bradenton, five grandchildren, several nephews and nieces and their children in widely separated states, and one cousin, Seth. C. Stevens of Brooklyn.

FUneral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Westminster Presbyterian church, the pastor, Rev. Goodlet H. Watson officiating assisted by the Revs. D. C. Hanna, George White, and E. H. Jennings.

Interment will be in the Fogartyville cemetery in charge of Wakemans. Altamont Enterprise — January 11, 1935

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