Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameEdward Wallace GALLAGHER
Birth19 Jul 1855, East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan541, p 1; year & place only,3646,4229, p 3
Removal1896, Bridgeport, Saginaw, Michigan3650, p 7 Age: 40
Removal1906, Frankenmuth, Saginaw, Michigan3650, p 7 Age: 50
Death1 Jun 1927, Frankenmuth, Saginaw, Michigan3646, year & place only,3651, p 4; date only Age: 71
BurialBrady Hill Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan3651, p 3
Occupationprinter, lumberman, clerk, bank employee; owned Frankenmuth News3648,3650, p 7
ResidenceHess Street, Saginaw3650, p 7
FatherWilliam Wallace GALLAGHER (1821-1882)
MotherLucy Maria BURWELL (1826-1875)
Individual Notes
• As young men, he and his brother William remained in Saginaw while the rest of their family spent several years in Missouri and Mississippi. Edward lived in the back of his father’s tobacco store.3650, p 7

• By 1891 they had a drug and cigar business, and lived upstairs over the store. She became a licensed pharmacist, while he was the tobacconist. 1896 found them in Bridgeport, again with a drugstore, but also publishing a small paper for advertising.
Ten years later, at the urging of a Frankenmuth resident, they moved there and started the Frankenmuth News. Although it was an English-language paper in a German-speaking community, it prospered and lasted many years. Eventually it was taken over by their son William R., and finally by one of his employees, closing well after World War II.3650, p 7
Census Data
• 1860 Census: Spaulding, Saginaw, Michigan. Age 5, b MI.4913
• 1880 Census: East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan. Age 24, b MI. Works On Boom. Father b MI; mother b CT. Living in household of Charles P. Hess. Listed as Edward M. Galliger. 4914
• 1900 Census: Bridgeport, Saginaw, Michigan. Age 45, b MI.4915
Spouses
Birth1858, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada3648
Birth1859, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada3646
Removalabt 1870, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan3651, p 39 Age: 12
Death24 Jun 1910, Frankenmuth, Saginaw, Michigan3646, year & place only,3651, p 39,4229, p 9 Age: 52
BurialBrady Hill Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan3651, p 3
Occupationlicensed pharmacist3649
Residenceof London, Ontario541, p 1
FatherSamuel R. WILDE (1826-1897)
MotherCatherine YOUNG
Individual Notes
• Laura’s parents had come to Saginaw for the opportunities in lumber.3650, p 7
Census Data
• 1900 Census: Bridgeport, Saginaw, Michigan. Age ??, b Canada. Mother of 5 living children.4915
Marriage5 Nov 1880, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan541, p 1; marriage only,3627, marriage only,3651, p 4,4229, p 5
Marr MemoSouth Saginaw
ChildrenLaura Marian (1882-1954)
 Katharine (1884-1980)
 Myron Burwell (1885-1966)
 Edward Detlar (1887-1954)
 William Ryerson (1889-1969)
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Updated 24 Dec 2025
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