Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Daniel M. Gallagher and Eliza Jane Marshall




Husband Daniel M. Gallagher 1

           Born:  - County Donegal, Ireland
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       Marriage: 23 Aug 1881 1



Wife Eliza Jane Marshall 1

           Born: 15 Jan 1858 1
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         Father: Joseph Thompson Marshall (1819-1871) 2 3
         Mother: Isabelle McElhany (      -      ) 4




Children
1 M James Marshall Gallagher 5

           Born: 16 May 1883 5
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General Notes: Husband - Daniel M. Gallagher


When eighteen years of age he sailed for Australia from Liverpool, England, May 1865, and landed in Melbourne, Victoria, August 13, 1865, having gone around the Cape of Good Hope. From Melbourne he traveled on foot into New South Wales, where he worked on a sheep farm, or station, which contained over 90,000 sheep, until 1869. December 22 of that year he left Australia and sailing across the Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn, landing in London April 13, 1870, thence he went to Liverpool by rail, thus making the circuit of the earth. He went to Donegal county, about 18 miles from Londonderry, where he remained with his parents until the spring of 1871, when he sailed for New York. Thence he came to Pittsburgh by way of Philadelphia, and went to work in a rolling mill June, 1871, where he remained three years. He then located at Pine Creole Furnace, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he remained till the spring 1879. He was one of the keepers of the furnace for three years. He purchased a farm in Cowanshannock township, Armstrong County, in 1874, and moved to it in 1879.

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Sources


1 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 131.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 127.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 418.

4 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 130.

5 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 132.


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