GARRETT TORMAY
Garrett Tormay, hardware dealer on Walnut street, established his present business in December, 1883. He came to Atlantic in 1874 and entered the employ of Eyller and Braasch, of this city, as tinner. He bought the property where his present business is located, in August, 1881. Garrett Tormay was born in county Cavan, Ireland, in 1833. His father, Farrell Tormay, died in that country. His mother, with her family, emigrated to America in 1847, with the exception of Garrett, who came in 1848. They settled at Newark, New Jersey, where Mrs. Tormay resided until her death. There were six children in the family, four brothers and two sisters. The oldest brother, Walter, was a soldier in the war for the union, and a member of General Sickles Excelsior brigade, and was killed at the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia. A sister, Catharine, is also deceased. Garrett, the subject of this sketch, is the only one of the family in Iowa. He has spent considerable time in traveling, having crossed the plains to California in 1859, and as early as 1856 was in Mahaska county, Iowa. He has been a resident of Atlantic since 1874.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 862.
