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Glenn is listed in the 1966 edition of the Gallup Genealogy as having been a physician and surgeon, and as residing in Hudson, WI. His grandson, Glenn Dean Gallup III, writes this for us:
"My grandfather Glenn Dean Gallup died 10 years before I was born so I have no personal recollection of him. My father told me he worked all the time, I think typical of a country doctor at the time. I do have some photographs of him. He had a youthful appearance but since he died at 48 this is natural."
His actual death took place while on a business trip to Owatonna, Minnesota. He was found in his hotel room by the maid, dead of a degenerated heart condition at only 48 years of age. Dr. Glenn graduated from the Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1904. Within a month of graduation he started his practice in River Falls, Wisconsin where he served the citizens of that city for a quarter of a century as their doctor.
Glenn Gallup and my father, Winfield D. Gallup, were first cousins. I remember the name Glenn Gallup coming up as one who was also a good friend of my father. I have a recollection, somewhat uncertain, that he and dad participated in outdoor activities as a young men, possibly camping in northern Minnesota or Wisconsin. However, I cannot say for certain whether it was Glenn senior or Glenn junior; it could have been either as Winfield was eleven years younger than the one and fourteen years older than the other.
I speculate that my brother Dean's given name may have been suggested by the middle name of this good friend of our father, particularly since my middle name and that of my brother David are also of other significance within the extended families of our parents.
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In some references her surname is given as "Von Crippen".
Glenn Dean Gallup III writes these remarks for us about his grandmother, Frances Crippen: "I knew her very well as I was 31 when she died and my sister and I spent many summers with her at her home in River Falls. After the death of my grandfather, Frances boarded students from River Falls State Teachers College, she continued to do this until her death in 1970. She also taught handicapped children and had a lot of success with kids others had given up on. I have fond memories of my grandmother, like most of her contemporaries she was a very practical, down to earth person. She was extremely smart but what you saw was what you got. In later life she spent more time in California, living either with my father and myself or with my Uncle Charles in the LA area. Frances' father was Amos Crippen; he was also a veteran of the Union army. I have a letter he wrote to my Grandmother describing being outside Appomattox Courthouse when General Lee surrendered. He describes in some detail Lee riding off on Traveller to tell his men the terms of surrender. I have a photograph of him taken around 1930 at the Soldiers home in Menomonee. He was a very distinguished looking man. He died in 1932 at the age of 94."
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(See note for Frances, his daughter)
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Glenn Gallup III writes about Charles Amos Gallup: "My Uncle Charles married Catherine [Katherine] and they had a son, my cousin Stephen, now deceased. In 1960 Stephen visited Northern California and that was the only time I met him. He seemed to be a very nice guy, spoke fluent French and we went to a top of the line French restaurant where he made reservations and ordered for all of us in the native tongue. Charles and Catherine divorced and he remarried my aunt Mignon who bore him three [actually four] sons."
Mark, youngest son of Charles Amos Gallup, and his wife Louisa were the next to send me some biographical information about Charles and his second wife Mignon Davis. About a year later this was corroborated by information from Dr. Theresa Gallup, daughter of another son of Dr. Charles, Peter Crippen Gallup. Theresa also provided me with more new information.
From all of this information we learn that Captain Charles Amos Gallup, MD became a decorated (Silver Star) WWII battlefield surgeon. He was in military facilities at San Luis Obispo, CA and within a very short time after his marriage to Mignon was sent to New Jersey and from there to the Ardennes, France where the infamous Battle of the Bulge was being fought. While his battalion and other American forces were beating a hasty retreat before the Nazi onslaught, Captain Gallup, another doctor and a few others of his medical unit, elected to stay behind to care for the wounded - Of which there were many. At least one of those whose life he saved has made written testimony to the self-sacrificing heroism of this singular man in a book of limited publication, now out of print, which was put together after the war.
Though Dr. Gallup's experiences in WWII were so horrific as to keep him from telling about them, it is known from this book that the Nazi captured Dr. Gallup and placed him before a firing squad but moments before his death several townspeople halted the awful event by informing the Nazi officer in charge that Dr. Gallup had as diligently helped their wounded as he had helped the American fallen. This resulted in the decision to put him in prison instead of executing him. Accounts exist of the terrible hardships of Dr. Gallup's imprisonment but he survived.
A family mystery, Mark Gallup wrote, is the question of what happened between Dr. Glenn Gallup Senior and his son Charles. There must have been serious rift, for the story Mark has heard is that Charles' father made him leave home and would not have anything to do with him ever after. Charles apparently put himself through medical school with the help of a Mr. and Mrs. Singleton (honored by the middle name of his first child, John) with whom he had become acquainted. Mark remembers his grandmother, Frances (Crippen) Gallup, as one who would visit California occasionally but does not know anything about his grandfather, Dr. Glenn Dean Gallup, Sr..
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Glenn Gallup III writes about Charles Amos Gallup: "My Uncle Charles married Catherine [Katherine] and they had a son, my cousin Stephen, now deceased. In 1960 Stephen visited Northern California and that was the only time I met him. He seemed to be a very nice guy, spoke fluent French and we went to a top of the line French restaurant where he made reservations and ordered for all of us in the native tongue. Charles and Catherine divorced and he remarried my aunt Mignon who bore him three [actually four] sons."
Mark, youngest son of Charles Amos Gallup, and his wife Louisa were the next to send me some biographical information about Charles and his second wife Mignon Davis. About a year later this was corroborated by information from Dr. Theresa Gallup, daughter of another son of Dr. Charles, Peter Crippen Gallup. Theresa also provided me with more new information.
From all of this information we learn that Captain Charles Amos Gallup, MD became a decorated (Silver Star) WWII battlefield surgeon. He was in military facilities at San Luis Obispo, CA and within a very short time after his marriage to Mignon was sent to New Jersey and from there to the Ardennes, France where the infamous Battle of the Bulge was being fought. While his battalion and other American forces were beating a hasty retreat before the Nazi onslaught, Captain Gallup, another doctor and a few others of his medical unit, elected to stay behind to care for the wounded - Of which there were many. At least one of those whose life he saved has made written testimony to the self-sacrificing heroism of this singular man in a book of limited publication, now out of print, which was put together after the war.
Though Dr. Gallup's experiences in WWII were so horrific as to keep him from telling about them, it is known from this book that the Nazi captured Dr. Gallup and placed him before a firing squad but moments before his death several townspeople halted the awful event by informing the Nazi officer in charge that Dr. Gallup had as diligently helped their wounded as he had helped the American fallen. This resulted in the decision to put him in prison instead of executing him. Accounts exist of the terrible hardships of Dr. Gallup's imprisonment but he survived.
A family mystery, Mark Gallup wrote, is the question of what happened between Dr. Glenn Gallup Senior and his son Charles. There must have been serious rift, for the story Mark has heard is that Charles' father made him leave home and would not have anything to do with him ever after. Charles apparently put himself through medical school with the help of a Mr. and Mrs. Singleton (honored by the middle name of his first child, John) with whom he had become acquainted. Mark remembers his grandmother, Frances (Crippen) Gallup, as one who would visit California occasionally but does not know anything about his grandfather, Dr. Glenn Dean Gallup, Sr..
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Glenn Dean Gallup III writes:
"My Aunt Marjorie married Richard Morehouse. Uncle Richard was in the oil business, an engineer, I think. They lived in Colorado and had 2 daughters, my younger cousins Pamela and Carol. As long as my father was alive we stayed in touch but after his death we sort of went our ways."