BIOGRAPHY: Daniel L. Gallaway; New York co., NY
surname: Gallaway

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Author: Walter Barrett

Daniel A. Gallaway
Page 139
Old Merchants, 
By Walter Barrett, Clerk
Thomas R. Knox, 1885

Blackwell and McFarlane brought up many young men as clerks during the thirty 
five years that old strong iron house existed.  Among the number was Daniel A. 
Gallaway.  After leaving his old employers, he went with William Scott, who 
was a great iron manufacturer up at Parville, New Jersey, and who was a 
brother of Colonel John Scott, so long the president of the Dover Bank.  Scott 
and Gallaway occupied the store, on the corner of Water and Coenties Slip, 
occupied by Blackwell and McFarlane from 1800 and that had been occupied by 
McFarland and Ayres when they dissolved in 1833.

Mr. Gallaway left them and formed a partnership with Frederick A. Gay under 
the firm of Gay and Gallaway. They kept at 73 Water Street, corner of Old 
Slip. They kept hollow hardware, iron kettles and all sorts of iron.  They had 
a curious italic lettered sign on a green ground. That store, No. 73 was owned 
by Jacob Southard, a rich coal dealer in the Fifth Ward. 

After a few years, Mr. Gallaway sold out to Gay and they dissolved and he went 
with William Scott again, under the firm of Scott and Gallaway.  They kept a 
large iron store on the corner of Dey and Washington Streets.

After a few months, on a hot day, Mr. Scott fell dead in front of the store. 
He owned an immense quantity of property at Powersville, near Dover.  He owns 
the Hibernia, Boonton, Durham, Parnill and other forges, besides a vast 
quantity of real estate. Every year he burned hundreds of charcoal pits.

After the death of Mr. Scott, Frances McFarlane, the son of old Henry, was 
taken into the firm and it was Gallaway and McFarlane.  Finally the latter 
sold out and Gallaway went back to his old store, 73 Water Street, corner of 
Old Slip and those monster iron kettles graced the front of his store to 
within a few months.  As he did an enormous southern business, I suppose the 
Rebellion finished him, for I do not recollect seeing a kettle in the vicinity 
of his Old Slip store for a year past.