Appeared in the Duluth News Tribune, May 21, 1920

PIONEER WOODSMAN DIES; FUNERAL WILL BE TOMORROW

 

Peter W. Gallagher, age 54, who for 29 years has resided in Duluth, died yesterday morning at his home, 2412 West Fifth Street, of Brights disease and hardening of the arteries. He had been ailing for about two years but was confined to his bed for only five weeks. He was a pioneer woodsman in the northwest but 18 years ago was injured in a railroad accident in the Duluth yards and since that time has at various times, operated grocery stores in the city.

 

He was born in Kemptville, Ont., and married Mary A. Whalen at the age of 24. He lived in Wausau, Wis., seven years before moving to Duluth. He is survived by his wife and one son, Edward; two sisters, Mrs. John Wetterhahn of Duluth, and Mrs. Roscoe Wade of Herman, N.Y.; three brothers, Edward, Thomas and Michael Gallagher all of Kemptville, Ohio. Funeral services will take place at St. Clements church Twenty-first avenue West and Third street tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Calvary cemetery.

 

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