Edward Galvin Biography 135-136 EDWARD GALVIN. Edward Galvin is the efficient manager of the Sturgis branch of the Bloom Shoe and Clothing Company. He is a native of LaSalle county, Illinois, born July 20, 1858, of the marriage of John and Mary Galvin. His parents were born, reared and married in Ireland, whence they came to the United States in 1852, making their way overland to LaSalle county, Illinois. The father was a bricklayer and continued to make his home in that county until his death in 1868. The mother died in 1881 at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Seven children were born to their union, of whom Edward is the fourth in order of birth. The last named acquired his primary education in the schools of Peru, Illinois, and at the age of ten years was employed as an errand boy in Des Moines, Iowa, later working and attending night schools in Council Bluffs, that state. While still under fourteen years of age he was employed as clerk in the S. Bloom Company's clothing store of that city. In 1876 Mr. Bloom removed to the Black Hills but Mr. Galvin remained with the new proprietor of the. Council Bluffs establishment until 1881, when he went to Deadwood and again entered the employ of Mr. Bloom. Two years later, when the branch store of the Bloom Shoe and Clothing Company was opened at Sturgis, he went there in the capacity of manager of the business. He is still directing the policy of that store, which carries a full line of shoes and clothing and is patronized by the best citizens of Sturgis and vicinity. He is financially interested in the Bloom Shoe and Clothing Company and is treasurer of that concern, which operates four stores besides the one in Sturgis, one in Deadwood, one in Red Lodge, Montana, one in Sheridan and one in Casper, Wyoming. Mr. Galvin is vice president of the Commercial National Bank of Sturgis, which opened its doors for business in 1902 and is president of the Sturgis Improvement Company, which owns a cattle ranch south of Tilford, South Dakota. The marriage of Mr. Galvin and Miss Hattie May Jewett was solemnized January 25, 1889. Mrs. Galvin was born in Lowell, Indiana, near Crown Point, that state, and is a daughter of Orin W. and Delilah (Drake) Jewett, natives of Portland, New York, and Lowell, Indiana, respectively. Her father, who was a practicing attorney, removed with his family to Illinois and still later, in 1879, came to the Black Hills, locating in Sturgis. He served as the first county judge of Meade county and maintained the dignity and impartiality of the bench. In 1903 he went to Sawtelle, California, where he engaged in the real- estate business until his death in 1908. In the spring of 1861 he answered President Lincoln's first call for troops and served in the Union Army until the close of the war. After the death of his first wife he was again married and his widow still lives in California. Mr. and Mrs. Galvin have one child, a daughter, Delilah Margaret, who gave her hand in marriage to Wallace A. Trumbull, a resident of Sturgis and chief clerk of the quartermaster's department, United States army, at Fort Meade. They have one child, Margaret Galvin. Mr. Galvin is a democrat and represented the fortieth senatorial district in the first state legislative body of South Dakota with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. In 1889 and 1890 he was a member of the city council and in 1898 and 1899 was president of that body. He is well known in Masonic circles throughout the state, belonging to all of the bodies in that order and having taken all of the degrees therein with the exception of the last and honorary degree. For ten years he was master of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 47, of Sturgis. His other fraternal connections are with the Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His knowledge of tile conditions and happenings of the early days of the statehood of South Dakota is valuable to the present generation, as the work of the pioneers is too apt to be forgotten by those who reap the benefit of their labor.