Ohio History Journal

EDITORIALANA.   VOL. XVIII. No. 2.                               APRIL, 1909.   NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES. It will be noted in the report of the Annual Meeting of the Society, held March 2, 1909, that two life members of the Society were newly elected trustees for the ensuing three years. They were Messrs. Caleb Hathaway Gallup and Walter Charles Metz.       Below  we give brief sketches of the lives of the gentlemen in question. Mr. Metz has been a member of the Society for some years and has been a student in archaeological lines. Mr. Gallup is known throughout the country for his historical scholarship and for the active and extensive work he has clone in connection with the Firelands Historical Society, of which he has been an influential and official member for a number of years.   CALEB HATHAWAY GALLUP. John  (1) Gallup, the ancestor of most of the families of that name, came to America from the Parish of Mosterne, County Dorset,

England in 1630. He became the owner and gave his name to Gallup's Island off Boston Harbor by grant from Governor Winthrop whose wife was a sister of Gallup's wife. A skillful mariner, he be- came memorable as commander of the first naval action off Block Island, fought in North American waters, to avenge the murder of his friend Captain John Oldham, by Indians in the "famous Pequot War" of 1637. His son John (2) participated in the naval engagement off Block Island and in "King Philip's War" as a captain, led a company of soldiers into the "fearful swamp of fight" at Narragansett, December 19, 1675, (within the limits of the present town of South Kingston, R. I.) where he was killed. Shortly before this war, a friendly Indian presented

him with a belt supposed to be a notice or warning of impending war. That belt or sash has descended in the family from generation to genera- tion until now it is in the possession of the Firelands Historical Society for safekeeping in its museum. Benadum was of the third generation; Benadam, his son, of the fourth; William  of the fifth generation was living at Kingston, Pennsylvania, with seven children in 1778 at the time of the "Wyoming massacre."    His son, Hallet (22 years old) escaped death by floating down the Susquehanna River, patrolled by hostile Indians, his body under water and face between two rails grasped 248

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in his hands. Twin daughters, five years of age, were carried off by the

Indians as pretty prizes, but were soon recovered by ransom.

William of the sixth, married Freelove Hathaway, a Philadelphia

Quakeress, and had Hallet of the seventh generation who was an artillery

gunner in Captain Thomas's Company of Pennsylvania Volunteers and

served under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812.

Caleb Hathaway (second of the name) of the eighth generation of

Gallups in America, and the subject of this sketch, was born at Nor-

walk, Ohio, May 10, 1834. His father was Hallet (7) and mother

Clarissa Benedict Gallup, daughter of Platt Benedict, the first settler of

the village of Norwalk. Mr. Benedict was the promoter and to his

death, October 25, 1866, President of the Firelands Historical Society.

Brought up to hard work on a farm, Caleb's first school experience

was in the Norwalk Union Schools during the winters of 1850-1-2, then

for one year (1853) he was employed as an assistant in the Huron

County Clerk's office. In 1854 he entered the freshman class at Denison

University, Granville, Ohio, in the scientific course, and in the fall of that

year transferred to the same class and course at Madison University,

now Colgate, at Hamilton, N. Y., where he promoted the founding of

Mu Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Mr. Caleb Gallup graduated from Madison as Bachelor of Science

in 1856 and studied law in the office of Worcester and Pennewell in

Norwalk, Ohio, until the fall of 1857, when he entered the law school

of the Cincinnati College and graduated therefrom in 1858 as Bachelor

of Laws. On July 19, 1859, he was admitted to the bar of Michigan

and in 1860 was elected prosecuting attorney of Huron County, Michi-

gan, which office he held by re-election for ten consecutive years, during

two of which (1866-7) he also held by election, the office of representa-

tive in the State Legislature from that county. Among other laws and

resolutions enacted on his initiation as a legislator, was a law for relief

of a stranded colony of educated Germans, off-shoot or protege of the

"economites" of Harmony, Pa. This law gave the head of each family

a forty acre homestead of state lands.

Mr. Gallup's military service was as Deputy U. S. Marshal (1863-

4-5) "enforcing the draft" during our Civil War.   He was himself

drafted but ordered back to the service of the marshal. He rendered

five years' service 1877-82 as a member of the Ohio National Guards.

He was twice married, first to Kate V. Vredenburgh of old New

York Dutch blood, June 20, 1860, by whom he had one son, nineteen

months old at the death of his mother, May 25, 1863; second marriage,

November 3, 1869, was to Helen Alphena Glover, niece of Hon. Joel

Parker, "War Governor" of New Jersey. The death, April 8, 1872, of

his second wife leaving one daughter eighteen months and one son four

days old, caused his removal back to the old home at Norwalk, Ohio.

Mr. Gallup has been a life member of The Whittlesey Academy of

Arts and Sciences since 1877; member of its board of trustees since

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250        Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.   1878; chairman of its trustees since 1878; and also its treasurer since 1901; a life member of the Firelands Historical Society since 1876; a member of its board of trustees, librarian and editor of its publications since 1888; member of the National Geographical Society; member of Huron County Children's Home Association; member of its board of trustees since 1889, and its treasurer since 1902; member of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room Association of Norwalk (free public library); member of its board of trustees and chairman of its execu- tive committee since 1903. He is a member of the Norwalk Board of Commerce, and prominent in the business interests of the city. In 1888 he with other friends, founded' the financially successful Home Savings & Loan Company of Norwalk, became one of its directors and its presi- dent, which offices he has continuously held to the present. Mr. Gallup has always been an enthusiastic student of Ohio and Western history. He has written much that is interesting and accurate concerning the early settlement of the Buckeye State. He has for many years taken a great interest in the work of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he became a life member at its last annual meeting.   WALTER CHARLES METZ. Walter Charles Metz is the son of Charles C. Metz and Christa Abbie Metz of Newark, Ohio. On his father's side, he is of an old

German family, which immigrated to this country in the early part of the last century, and which finally wended its way to Newark, Ohio, coming from Cleveland by way of the once beautiful Ohio Canal. On his mother's side he lost nothing, for her family is of that good old revolutionary stock of New England, that made the thirteen original colonies "free and independent states." He was born in Newark, Ohio, February 1st, 1879, and received his early education in the public schools of that place. In 1897 he went to Boise, Idaho, where he joined a Surveying Corps and spent the summer in the mountains of Northern Idaho, doing Government work in the timber re- gions. The following winter he spent in Cali-

fornia and the Western States--returning home in the spring. The next two years of his life were spent in New Hampshire, preparatory to entering the Ohio State University, from which institution he graduated with the class of 1905, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While a student in the University he was taken into the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was also made a life member of the Archaeological and Historical Society of Ohio.

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