History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/William H. Gallup
WILLIAM H. GALLUP is one of the veteran journalists of Iowa. He was born in Schoharie County, New York, in May, 1840, and attended the public schools and a seminary, teaching school several years. He entered the Poughkeepsie Law School in 1859 from which he graduated and was admitted to the bar of Newburg. In May, 1861, Mr. Gallup came to Iowa, locating at Marshalltown where he practiced law a short time when he purchased the Marshalltown Times and entered upon his long career of journalism which continued with few interruptions for more than a third of a century. During the exciting times when General Grant was closing the coils around Vicksburg, so anxious were the people for news that Mr. Gallup issued the Times daily, which was the first daily paper issued on the line of the Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Council Bluffs. In December, 1864, Mr. Gallup removed to Boonsboro and established the Boone Standard. In 1870 he became the publisher of the Nevada Representative. He was an active Republican and in 1875 he was elected to the State Senate, serving through the Sixteenth and Seventeenth General Assemblies. He was the author of a law authorizing townships and incorporated towns to vote taxes to aid in building railroads. In 1887 Mr. Gallup purchased the Perry Chief in Dallas County and after five years sold the paper and, returning to Boone County, bought an interest in the Republican paper, in 1896 becoming the sole owner. In 1899 he established the Monthly Review and Advertiser.