Biography

04/07/1861 - 10/30/1906

GALLAGHER, Daniel F., a Representative from Northumberland County; born, April 7, 1861 in Big Mine Run, Schuylkill County, Pa.; miner (1870-1886); caretaker, Washington Hotel, Mount Carmel (1887); deputy sheriff, Northumberland County (1888); engaged, furnishing business (1888); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); president, United Mine Workers, Northumberland County; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1896); elected, justice of the peace, Mount Carmel (1897-1906); died, October 30, 1906 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Marys Cemetery; Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.