BIOGRAPHY: Gallup, Elisha
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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     ELISHA GALLUP was born in Melbourne, Sherbrook County, Lower 
Canada, August 22, 1820.  He was  raised on a farm.  Education at 
public school limited.  At the age of fifteen took sole charge of a 
flouring mill, and though without previous experience conducted it 
successfully,  and continued at the same place for fifteen years.  In 
1843, May 8, was married to Miss Mary Lancaster, of Melbourne.  In 1859 
sold out in Canada and moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and lived there 
until 1865, when he moved to Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, where he at 
present resides.  Has a family of four children - two sons and two 
daughters.
     Since his early youth his greatest study has been of bees, their 
workings, how to propagate them successfully; and in this regard, after 
publishing his biography, the Illustrated Bee Journal, published at 
Indianapolis, Indiana, July, 1870, speaks of him as follows:
     "Our readers see in Mr. Gallup a self-made man, and today is 
recognized as the leader of apiculture, standing in the front rank, 
still advancing, learning some thing every day of his little pets.  
What a name has he made for himself!  His letters have no doubt been 
read in every county in the United States.  You can scarcely find a 
bee-keeper that has not heard of Gallup; he may be called the Huber of 
America.
     "Gallup's name is known and spoken in every language wherever the 
little bee is known."
     He has been a contributor to most all the leading journals of the 
United States on apiculture.
     About twenty years ago he had occasion, by an almost miraculous 
cure by water-treatment in his own family, to investigate the merit of 
such treatment, and after a most careful study and successful practice, 
without charges, for about nineteen years, curing the most difficult 
cases, he has established himself at Osage for the treatment of cases, 
at the urgent solicitation of numerous friends, some of whom are 
indebted to him for their lives and present good health.