Biography of 	Galvin, Bartholomew Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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Bartholomew Galvin, familiarly known as Bat Galvin, is a well-known
business man of the city of New Orleans, La., and in the political affairs
of his section of the city he exerts a strong influence.  He was born in
the "Emerald Isle," but when a youth was brought to America, and was reared
and educated in New Orleans.  In 1861 he espoused the cause of the
confederacy, and joined Perseverance company No. 13, with which he served
and participated in many hard-fought and bloody battles during that
eventful and trying period.  His career as a soldier was marked by bravery
and valor, and after four years of hard service he returned to his home and
began keeping a livery stable.  Soon after this, however, he joined the
police force, but when the administration changed he resigned his position.
 He was commissioned captain of the police of the First district of New
Orleans in 1873, but became involved in some difficulty with the federal
authorities.  He entered fully on his duties as captain of the same
district in 1874 and served continuously until 1882, frequently as chief of
police of the city, but in the latter part of that year he resigned.  He
had charge of the police during the labor trouble in this city and
received, and deserved, great credit for his sound judgment and diplomacy
in the management of affairs.  Upon resigning from the police force he
turned his attention to the general livery business and dealing in horses,
and is considered, and justly so, an excellent judge of horse flesh and an
authority on all pertaining to them.  His vehicles are in excellent
condition, and he keep. a stock of superior horses which are always ready
for use at reasonable terms.  He has owned and handled some of the fastest
horses in the South, and is in every way admirably fitted for his business.
 He is a prominent member of the Olympic club, the Cotton Men's Benevolent
association, and politically is a democrat.  He was married in New Orleans
to Miss Marcella Smith, of Chicago, Ill., by whom he became the father of
one child.  After her death he married again and his second wife bore him
two children.  He is a son of James and Bridget Galvin, who came from
Ireland to this city when the subject of this sketch was a small boy and
here spent the remainder of their days.  They became the parents of
thirteen children and Bartholomew was the only one alive at the close of
the war.  He returned home and cared for his parents until their deaths.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 428-429.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.