GALLION, THOMAS

GALLION, REED, SPROAT, STHALL, SMITH

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Date: 5/19/2005 at 16:46:10

Biography reproduced from page 520 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Thomas Gallion is a native of Scotland, born near Edinburgh. When twenty years of age he came to America and engaged in the fur trade in the Hudson Bay Company for seven years. He then returned to Scotland, remaining there one year; thence to Canada, where he followed farming ten years near Montreal. In 1865 he removed to Kossuth Co., Iowa, and settled on section 36, township 96k range 28. In 1840 Mr. Gallion was united in marriage with Jane Reed, of Scotland. The result of this union was six children—Thomas, John, Margaret, James, William J. and Robert R. Thomas married Alba Sproat and lives in Illinois. Margaret married J. C. Sthall and lives in Columbia Co., Wis., near Lodi. James married Nettie Smith. The other children live at home with their mother. Mr. Gallion died in 1881, and is buried in Portland cemetery. William J. owns a threshing machine, which he has run for thirteen years in succession. He is a blacksmith by trade.