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         CHARLES GALLUP is a resident of Concord Township, where he is the owner of 100 acres of land, which is under a high state of cultivation. He is a native of New York, born in Albany County, in 1833, and is a son of Girden and Eve (Hurley) Gallup, the former a native of Connecticut, and the latter of Albany County, N. Y. They were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters, Charles being sixth in order of birth. His father was a farmer, and on the home farm he grew to manhood, assisting in its cultivation, and attending the district school as the opportunity was afforded him. In the fall of 1856 he emigrated to Illinois, locating in Joliet, Will County, where he remained one year, engaged as overseer of a gang of workmen in a stone quarry. He then came to Louisa County, where he engaged with A. H. Taylor & Co., who were contractors in the construction of a portion of the Mississippi & Missouri River Railroad, now the Rock Island & Pacific, remaining with them one year in charge of a gang of men. He next went to the “Sand Banks,” which is now Columbus Junction, where for the next year he was engaged in the commission business. In the fall of 1859 he returned to Joliet, remained a short time, and then went to Napoleon, Ark., where he spent the following winter. In 1860 he returned to Louisa County, and located at Clifton, where he engaged in the general merchandise and grain business in company with George Haywood, the partnership continuing about two years. During that time he became acquainted with, and on the 27th day of December, 1863, was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Beck, a daughter of Henry Beck, and a native of Pennsylvania.

Immediately after their marriage the young couple went to New York to visit the parents of Mr. Gallup, where they remained one year, and then returned to Clifton, and until the spring of 1865 he was engaged in clerking for his old partner, Mr. Haywood. He then purchased a farm in Scott County, Iowa, to which he removed, and for one year engaged in farming. Returning again to Clifton, for the next eight months he was in the employ of Mr. Haywood, when, in company with John Russell, he built a storeroom, and once more embarked in business for himself. The partnership with Mr. Russell continued but a short time, for in the spring of 1867 he sold his interest to his partner, and removed to Washington, Iowa, where he engaged as foreman in the mill and elevator of John Hale, remaining there until the spring of 1873. He then returned to his Scott County farm, on which he remained one year, and next took his family to the home of his parents in New York State, where the following four years were spent. In the spring of 1877 he again returned with his family to Iowa, locating in Durant, Cedar County. Not finding employment to his liking, he went to Columbus Junction, where he engaged with I. L. Collins in the hardware business, his family remaining at Durant until 1882. In the spring of 1883 he severed his connection with Mr. Collins, and in June of that year went to work for Walter Paugh. In March, 1884, he removed to his present farm, where he devotes his entire attention to its cultivation, and to the raising of fine stock, having in his herd the cattle those of the Durham and Jersey breed, and making a specialty of Poland-China hogs. His horses are of the Norman and Clydesdale stock.

Mr. and Mrs. Gallup are the parents of five children, two boys and three girls. In politics he is an advocate of the principles of the Greenback party, and fraternally, is a member of the Odd Fellows . . .

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. . . Legion of Honor, and of the United Workmen. A resident of Louisa County for the greater part of a third of a century, he has witnessed the vast changes that have been made in transforming it from a wilderness to a fruitful region, and has been an active participant in the grand work.