Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Gollagher, S. 1852 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The resourcefulness of the Irish race and its willingness to enter any

field of labor, however untried or great the undertaking, is well known

everywhere, and its daring is as often the result of hope, high spirits,

self-reliance and general quickness of apprehension, as of discretion and

maturity of deliberation.  Youth does not deter its people and inexperience does

not intimidate them.  Mr. Gollagher, of Tin Cup, one of the leading business men

of that portion of Gunnison county, is a striking illustration of this truth. 

Landing in New York at the age of twenty, he entered business as a grocer and

hotel keeper, and conducted his enterprise successfully until he desired to

follow other pursuits in a different part of the country.  His family had dwelt

in Ireland for many generations, and there he was born in 1852, the son of

Thomas and Rosanna (Phillips) Gollagher, whose noble lives were passed on the

Emerald Isle, as those of their forefathers had been from time immemorial.  The

father died in 1890, aged seventy-five, and the mother is still living in county

Derry.  Their son Samuel remained at home, assisting on the farm which they

conducted and attending schools as he had opportunity until he reached the age

of twenty.  He then determined to seek in the new world the chance to gratify

his ambitions which seemed to be denied in the old, and came to the United

States for the purpose, as thousands of his countrymen had done before and

thousands have done since.  He reached New York in 1872 after an uneventful

voyage, and although at the time he had but little money or knowledge of the

world, he was impelled by his courageous spirit to enter the business circles of

the American metropolis as a grocer and hotel-keeper, and he followed these

lines successfully for seven years.  By that time the Leadville gold excitement

was at its height, and believing there was as good a chance for him in that

promising field as for any other man of nerve and self-reliance, he sold out his

New York business and sought the new camp in the heart of the Rockies.  He

remained at Leadville only six weeks, however, surveying and prospecting without

satisfactory results, then came on to Tin Cup, where he followed the same

employments until 1889.  In that year he turned once more to his first

occupation in this country, opening a grocery and general merchandising

establishment which he is still conducting, and in which his success has fully

justified his change of base.  His emporium is one of the leading mercantile

institutions of the section in which he lives, and lays a large extent of

country under tribute to its trade.  It is conducted on lofty lines of integrity

and business capacity, wherein the needs of the community are carefully studied

and provided for, and the comfort and satisfaction of his patrons have due

consideration.  Mr. Gollagher was united in marriage with Miss Anna B. Clickener

in 1893 and six children are the fruit of their union, Catherine, Rosa, Susan,

Anna, Gertrude and Samuel J.  In the public thought and activities of the

community Mr. Gollagher wields a healthful and inspiring influence, and in the

regard of the people he has a high place.  

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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