Bio: Gallon, John T. (1881)

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Surnames: Gallon, Welland

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 572

JOHN T. GALLON, lumberman and proprietor saw-mill on the Trappe River, eight miles north of Wausau, was born in Ireland, Sept. 12, 1828. He first settled at Three Rivers, Mich., and was there a short time in the lumber business, in the Summer of 1850. He then went to Stevens Point in the same business, and remained until September, 1868, when he went to Wausau and remained there until the Fall of 1873, extensively engaged in lumber. From there he went to Trapp River, and bought a saw-mill. His mill was erected in the Fall of 1866, its capacity is 50,000 in twenty-four hours. He employs seventy-five men in the Winter and forty at other seasons of the year. He was married in Wausau, Oct. 7, 1866, to Martha A. Welland; who was born in Bellville, N. J., Sept. 11, 1845. They have two children, John T., Jr., born Aug. 8, 1867, and Nellie, born July 7, 1876.