• Later that year the family went to Ohio and then to Michigan, where they engaged in milling. When William was in his late teens, he worked for his uncle, Sam Ward, on lake ships.1500, p 2

• In the 1850s the new family moved to Saginaw, where William W. and his brother John opened a lumber mill, called the Ann Arbor Mill. He also bought land from Aaron Penney and platted the town of Salina.1500, p 3

• Next they moved to Mississippi, which was an important source of southern pine. We don't know when they moved, but we have an 1875 newspaper from Bay St. Louis, MS, noting the deaths of Myron on Sept. 3, Emeline on Sept. 6, and Lucy on Sept. 18. Yellow fever epidemics were devastating every year. Newspapers did not print much more than the names of the dying; indeed, many cities refused t give out any statistics because of the effect it might have on tourism. None of the cemeteries list any Gallaghers. A librarian in Biloxi MS told me many bodies were burned to prevent the spread of the disease.1500, p 3

• My grand-father, William Wallace Gallagher, and Jacob Hess, married two Burwell sisters, and they, together with David and John Gallagher, came to the Saginaw Valley as young men and women and carried on many enterprises and had much to do with the early development of the City of Saginaw. They were land-lookers, timber buyers, lumberman, mill operators, land speculators, bankers.
William Gallagher had extensive holdings in Marion County, Miss.; Douglas County, Neb.; Christian County, Mo.; pine lands in Georgia, and a large farm south of Salina, now South Saginaw, and their names are perpetuated by streets that were named for them. Gallagher and Hess platted much of what then was the Village of Salina.1600, p 3

• Lucy and William Gallagher moved to Saginaw in the early 1850s to take up the lumber business. William started a lumber mill with his brother John on the Saginaw River. By the 1860s William was into merchant life, and John was a banker.
In the 1870s William, Lucy, and at least two of their four children went south for an extended stay. They stayed for a time in Farmington, Missouri, in 1874, and then went to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, which is on the Gulf near Biloxi. There, in 1875, a yellow fever epidemic swept through the area and killed Lucy and her two children, Emeline and Myron. When William, the father, returned to Michigan, he found that his fortune had also been gutted, either due to the economic depression which began in 1873 and/or to bad management by his banker brother John. (This is the material of family legends, none of it yet substantiated.)1612, p 8

• 1830 Census: St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 5-10. 2201001/001001.1604
• 1860 Census: Spaulding, Saginaw, Michigan. Age 37, b NY. Lumberman. $25,000; $10,000.1613

• 1857: councilman from East Saginaw.1500, p 3