Legislator Details
Portrait captured from Find--Grave.com, 9/10/2026
Vital Records Information:
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Marital Information:
married Kate V. Vredenburgh, 6/20/1860, she died 1863; children: 1, Richard Carroll; married Helen Alphena Glover, a niece of the Hon. Joel Parker, "war governor" of NJ, 11/3/1869, she died 4/8/1872; children: 2, Mabel Parker (Laylin) and Herbert Alpheus
Number of Children: 3
Background
Education:
attended Norwalk Union schools, winters of 1850, 1851 and 1852; matriculated at Denison University, Granville, OH, in 1854; transferred to Madison University, [later Colgate, at Hamilton, NY] graduated in 1856 with the degree of Bachelor of Science; studied law as a student in the office of Worcester & Pennewell in Norwalk, OH; entered the law school of the Cincinnati College, fall 1857, graduated with the Bachelor of Law degree on the 4/15/1858
Biographical Sketch:
In 1853, he filled a position in the office of the Huron county clerk. Admitted to the bar of Michigan,7/19/1859. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Huron County, MI, 1860-70. He returned to Norwalk, OH after the death of his second wife in 1872. From 1873 until 1883, he was connected with promotion and construction of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and for 3 years, beginning in 1877, served on its board of directors. In 1888, he was associated with other substantial businessmen in founding Home Savings & Loan Company of Norwalk, at which time he was chosen president and one of the directors. He was a member of the executive committee of the Toledo, Fremont & Norwalk Electric Railway at the time of its construction in 1899. He thus served until its sale in 1901 to the Lake Shore Electric Company.
Notable Facts:
He introduced a law appropriating ten sections of state land for the navigable improvement of the outlet of the River Du Fill in Huron county, Michigan, and a joint resolution calling for the construction by the general government of a harbor or refuge on Lake Huron at or near Point Au Barques.
Find-a-Grave gives birthdate as 8/16/1834 and both Hallet and Clarissa (Benedict) Gallup and Cyrus and Sarah (Mann) Gallup as his parents. Hallet and Clarissa are likely correct.