Noyes B. Gallup Biography


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NOYES B. GALLUP. Only those lives are worthy of record that have been 
potential factors in the public progress in promoting the general 
welfare or advancing the educational or moral interests of the country. 
Mr. Gallup was ever faithful to his duties of citizenship, and by the 
successful conduct of his business interests, not only promoted his 
individual success, but also advanced the general prosperity. 

He was born January 12, 1831, in Voluntown, New London county, 
Connecticut, formerly Windham county, and was the seventh in a family 
of eleven children, whose father was a farmer in Voluntown, where he 
died in 1852. During his minority our subject assisted in the operation 
of the home farm, and at the age of twenty-one took charge of the 
place, which he successfully carried on for two years. He then 
canvassed for books in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and in 1856, in 
company with fourteen other young men, started for the west to grow up 
with the country. They located in Dodge county, Minnesota, near 
Wasioja, meaning "crazy water," and Mr. Gallup took up a quarter-
section of land four miles from the village, with a land warrant, for 
which he paid one hundred and fifty dollars. 

On the 14th of September, 1857, he was united in marriage, in 
Faribault, Rice county, Minnesota, with Miss Delia J. Gere, of 
Griswold, New London county, Connecticut, a young lady who had gone to 
Minnesota with a family of early settlers, and started in the 
dressmaking business there. Seven children were born of this union, 
namely: Dollie Gere, now the wife of Clarence E. Quimby, who lives near 
the old homestead in Jefferson township, Spink county, South Dakota; 
Jasper Elijah, who also lives near the home farm; Thomas Shipman, a 
resident of Athol township, Spink county; Robert Gere, who lives near 
the home farm; Martha Ellen and Mary Elmyra, both at home; and Isaac 
Gardner, who died at the age of three years, four months and five days. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gallup began their domestic life upon his farm in 
Minnesota, where they were living at the time of the terrible Indian 
massacre in 1862, being only sixty miles from the center of trouble, 
and their home was headquarters for many of the fleeing white settlers. 
At that place Mr. Gallup conducted the post office and continued to 
make his home for ten years, during which time he saw the country 
become quite thickly settled and the railroads built through the 
county. There he acquired four hundred acres of fine farming land, but 
again had an attack of the "western fever" and in the spring of 1881 
came to Spink county, South Dakota, where he homesteaded the northeast 
quarter of section 2, Jefferson township, and also took up a tree 
claim. In 1885 he sold his Minnesota farm and moved his family to the 
land he kind secured in this state. He prospered in his new home and 
the family now own five quarter-sections of land unencumbered by debt. 
The entire acreage is planted to grain with the exception of about 
forty-five acres of pasture land. They keep a flock of about seven or 
eight hundred sheep, twenty-five head of cattle and twenty horses, and 
as stock raisers have also been quite successful. In 1890 a six-inch 
artesian well, eight hundred and seventy-four feet deep, was bored upon 
the place, which had a strong flow, the column of water rising to from 
fourteen to sixteen feet above the casing, but the casing was not put 
down in a correct manner and after about four months quick sand closed 
in and stopped the flow. Mr. Gallup died suddenly from diabetes, 
January 4, 1899. He was a man of the highest respectability, and those 
who were most intimately associated with him speak in unqualified terms 
of his sterling integrity, his honor in business and his fidelity to 
all the duties of public and private life. A portrait of Mr. Gallup 
appears on another page of this volume.