MORGAN EDWARDS GABLE, the
editorial manager of the Pittsburg Times and Pittsburg Daily News, is a son of
William H. and the late Sarah Ann (Morgan) Gable. Born April 18, 1862, at Strasburg,
Lancaster County, he comes of German origin. His ancestors were intelligent,
progressive, and broad-minded men. His father was one of the most prominent
teachers in the public schools of Eastern Pennsylvania for thirty years, and his
mother before her marriage was an instructor in the Linden Hall Seminary at
Litisz, Pa. Morgan E. Gable became self-supporting at an unusually early age. When only nine years
old he was employed as a slate picker in the anthracite coal region at Tamaqua.
When fourteen years of age he began a four years' apprenticeship on the Tamaqua
Courier. His first regular employment in newspaper work was in 1881, when he became connected with the
Shenandoah Herald.Since that time his career in the press has been phenomenal. Only a little more than a
year after his employment on the Shenandoah Herald, in August, 1881, when
but nineteen years of age, he became managing editor of the Reading Herald. In this position he gained valuable
experience, developing the critical judgment and the quickness of discrimination
necessary to the person who has to select the staff for any newspaper.
On November 8, 1883, while making his record on the
Herald, he married Margaret Brunson, daughter of the Hon. M. P. Fowler,
of Shenandoah, Pa. His connection with the Reading paper had lasted nearly six years when he became
the telegraph editor of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, and later
the city editor. In 1889 he resigned the post arid became special correspondent
at Pittsburg for twenty-one of the leading newspapers of the United
States. Nearly all the important despatches sent out from Pittsburg that were published in the daily
press of the country, passed through his hands. Considering the commercial
importance of Pittsburg, this was a position of great
responsibility. In December, 1891, Mr. Gable became city editor of the Pittsburg Times,
and on May 1, 1892, the managing editor. Mr. Gable has also the editorial
management of the Daily News, an afternoon paper controlled by the owners of the Pittsburg
Times.
THOMAS
WHEELER GALLEHER,
the general freight agent for the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, has been connected with this road since he was a boy of fourteen
years. He was born near Frederick-town, Knox County, Ohio, April 7, 1858, a son
of Ludwell Leith Galleher. His paternal grandfather, Thomas H. Galleher, born
July 11, 1792, died February 26, 1859. He resided in Virginia, and followed the
occupation of farmer.
Ludwell Leith Galleher was reared and educated in
Fauquier County, Virginia, where his birth occurred July 27, 1831. While yet
young and single, he went to Ohio, locating in Knox County, where he was engaged
in general farming for many years. In 1869 he removed to De Kalb County,
Missouri, where he resided on a farm until 1870. Then, being unfavorably
impressed with that section of the country, he returned to Ohio, settling in
Fredericktown, where he lived retired until his death on November 30, 1888. He
married Mary Jane Love, who was born June 21, 1840, in Knox County, daughter of
Thomas Love, prosperous farmer. Pleasant and charitable, and a consistent member
of the Methodist Episcopal church in which her husband was for a long time class
leader and steward, she resides in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She has six children
living, namely: Thomas W., the subject of this sketch; Boman Aker, the agent for
the B. O. Railroad at Sandusky, Ohio; Mattie V., the wife of J. F. Hess, who is
engaged in mercantile pursuits in Chicago, 111.; Cora Belle, living with her
mother at Mount Vernon; Rolla Leroy, of Pittsburg, travelling freight agent for
the B. & O. Railroad; and Howard Leith, of this city, stenographer for the
B. & O. Railroad.
Thomas Wheeler Galleher attended a country school
near Fredericktown until his removal to Missouri with his parents in 1869. On
his return to that village in 1870 he completed his education. At the age of
fourteen he obtained a position as telegraph messenger at the Baltimore &
Ohio station in his native town, and being a bright, intelligent boy, soon
mastered the mysteries of telegraphy, at which he spent all his, leisure
moments. On November 18, 1872, he became the night operator in the same station,
and since that time he has been deservedly promoted to various offices of
responsibility until reaching his present position, the duties of which he
discharges with thorough efficiency and in a way that gives satisfaction to all
concerned. His railroad service, entirely with the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad,has been as follows: November 18, 1872, to December 31, 1877, telegraph
operator at Fredericktown, Monroeville, Chicago Junction, Butler, Utica, Newark,
Lewis Mill, Bellaire, and Columbus, Ohio; January 1, 1878, to July 6, 1880,
chief clerk to division freight agent at Columbus, Ohio; July 7, 1880, to
January 4, 1882, agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Express at Columbus; January
5, 1882, to February 1, 1882, travelling freight agent at Columbus; February 1,
1882 to April 30, 1882, acting division freight agent at Columbus; May 1, 1882,
to May 22, 1885, chief clerk to assistant general freight agent at Columbus; May
23, 1885, to December 31, 1886, chief clerk to assistant general freight agent
at Pittsburg, Pa.; January 1, 1887, to March 15, 1896, division freight agent at
Pittsburg; March 16, 1896, to February 28, 1897, general freight agent at
Pittsburg; March 1, 1897, he was appointed general freight agent at Baltimore,
Md., and has since resided with his family in that city.
On September 8, 1886, Mr. Galleher
was united in marriage with Miss Anna Hazeltine Potter, daughter of Dr. Samuel
B. Potter, of Fredericktown, Ohio. They have one child, Earl Potter Galleher,
whose birth occurred May 30, 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Galleher are members of the
Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is an officer. Mr. Galleher was
made a Mason many years ago in Magnolia Lodge, No. 20, of Columbus, Ohio. He
dimitted, and is now a member of Crescent Lodge, No. 576, of Pittsburg; likewise
of Ohio Chapter, No. 12, of Columbus; and is a life member of Columbus Council.
He also joined Capital Lodge, No. 334, I. O. O. F., of Columbus, in which he
passed all the chairs. He is likewise a member of Pittsburg Conclave, No. 89,
Improved Order of Heptasophs, of this city. In politics he votes the Republican
ticket, but he takes no active part in local affairs.
WILLIAM H. GRAHAM, a prominent business man ofPittsburg, was born in Allegheny City, August 3, 1844, son of Harrison and
Elizabeth (Thornley) Graham. His grandfather, William Graham, an Englishman, who
had been a sea captain in his own country, was an early settler in Allegheny,
where he kept a grocery. William died while the Civil War was waging, being then
over eighty years old. Robert, one of his two sons, is now the president of the
Bible College of Kentucky. His other son, Harrison Graham, with his wife came to
this country from a locality in England near Manchester, in 1830, locating in Philadelphia. After living
there for a few years, they travelled over the mountains by wagon, and settled
in Allegheny. Harrison was a rope-maker and a
confectioner. He died in Pittsburg of cholera in 1854. His wife is still
living. They were both members of the Christian church. Of their eight children
Sarah, Mary J.; William H., John B., Margaret, and Harry are living. Sarah is
the wife of C. L. Netting; Mary J. is the wife of Richard Theophilus; and
Margaret is the wife of H. A. Spangler, of Allegheny. Harry is employed in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds, Pittsburg.
William H.
Graham has passed his entire life in Allegheny. When left fatherless at the age
of ten, he was obliged to withdraw from school and go out into the world to earn
his living. In April, 1861, young Graham, then only sixteen, enlisted in a
Pittsburg company, which, as
Pennsylvania
's quota was
filled, was not accepted for service. Still determined to go to the war, on
learning that West Virginia had been called upon for a regiment, the men
composing the company chartered a steamer, by which they went down to Wheeling,
where they offered their services. They were accepted for three years as Company
A, Second Virginia Infantry. It is claimed that this company killed the first
rebel soldier in the war. Mr. Graham was wounded at the battle of White Sulphur
Springs, and was sent to the
West
Penn
Hospital ,
Pittsburg
, where he remained until
convalescent. Then he returned at once to his regiment. He fought in the battles
of Cross Keys, second Bull Run,
Beverly ,
Droop
Mountain ,
Cloyd
Mountain ,
Winchester ,
Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek,
Waynesboro ,
Five
Forks , and in a number of smaller
engagements. After two years the regiment was mounted, and subsequently served
under General
Averill and General Sheridan. At the expiration of his term he accepted
employment in the quartermaster's department, and was attached to General
Sheridan's headquarters during that dashing general's brilliant campaign in the
Shenandoah Valley. He accompanied Sheridan in his famous march across Virginia and ride around Richmond, joining General Grant at Petersburg, and with his cavalry and the Fifth Corps of
infantry, he swung around Lee's flank, and fought the decisive battle of Five
Forks, breaking Lee's line, and capturing Petersburg, compelling the evacuation of Richmond. During these
operations and the pursuit of Lee's army Mr. Graham served as a volunteer aid.
While carrying a message to Sheridan on the eventful 9th of April, 1865, he rode
out between the two lines of battle to the little village of Appomattox, and
there, in the house of Mr. McLean, had the rare good fortune to be one of the
few witnesses of the memorable interview between the two great generals that
terminated in the surrender of General Lee. After taking part in the Grand
Review at Washington he returned to civil life. Upon
retiring from the army Mr. Graham and H. A. Spangler formed the firm of Graham
& Spangler, wholesale leather dealers in Allegheny. This partnership
continued until 1872. Then Mr. Graham became the chairman of Mansfield &
Co., Limited, brass manufacturers. He is also president of the Mercantile Trust
Company, of the Mercantile Bank, of the Eureka Coal Company, and of the Central
Accident Insurance Company.
