Essex

GALLUP, O. M.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 152-153 
(portrait p 153)

O. M. GALLUP, of Victory [Essex County, Vermont], was born 21 March 1838 in 
Wakefield [Carroll County], New Hampshire, son of Amos and Emoline GALLUP. 
His father was a prominent farmer and business man. Mr. GALLUP received a 
fair education in the common schools of the town, and began his career as a 
driver of logs. Mr. GALLUP had a great natural aptitude and desire for large 
operations and soon commenced railroad building; his first work being the 
Hopkinton & Milford Railroad [Merrimack and Hillsborough Counties, New 
Hampshire, respectively] ; he next built the Acton & Nashua Railroad 
[Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 
respectively]; then went to Wood River Junction [Washington County], Rhode 
Island, and constructed the railroad there, and afterwards the larger portion 
of the Kingston & Narragansett [Washington County, Rhode Island] railroad. 
He soon came to Vermont and built forty-one miles of road from the town of 
Johnson [Lamoille County] to the Lake [Champlain]. He then constructed the 
Profile & Franconian Notch Railroad [Grafton County, New Hampshire], opening 
up this important summer resort in the White Mountains. Later he built the 
docks at Swanton [Franklin County, Vermont] and the Champlain House at Maquam 
Bay [Franklin County, Vermont], at a cost of $28,000. His next enterprise 
was the link connecting Bethlehem [Grafton County], New Hampshire, with the 
main line, and after this he constructed thirteen miles of railroad to Maquam 
Bay [Rutland County, Vermont] and Rouse's Point [Clinton County, New York].

In 1880 he came to Victory and with C. H. STEVENS bought the mill now called 
"Gallup's Mills," but his partner soon sold out. At this time there was not 
a good highway in the place, and Mr. GALLUP at once surveyed a route for a 
railroad at his own expense and obtained by personal effort a large part of 
the subscription for the enterprise, contributing fifteen hundred dollars on 
his own account; then he took the contract to build the road at a losing 
price, that the town might receive the benefit of it. From that time to the 
present he has been engaged in his mill, although he has since built a road 
for the Wild River Lumber Company, in the western part of Maine.

Mr. GALLUP was elected to the Legislature in 1892 from Victory as a Democrat. 
He takes a great interest in every movement which conduces to the moral and 
material well-being of his community, and has been a liberal contributor to 
all worthy enterprises in the community, having donated land for the schools 
and churches of the place. On 03 July 1883 Mr. [O. M.] GALLUP was married to 
Miss Mary A. CUTTER, daughter of A. B. CUTTER, of Bradford [Essex County], 
Massachusetts. Four children have blessed their union, of whom two are 
living: Annie, and Frank.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly