Family Nibbles – Volume 9 is here! This book is about the lives of our Large and Gallagher ancestors, with a little bit of Dugan thrown in.
251 – Family Nibbles – Volume 9
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246 – A Missouri Farm
In March 1872, just a few years after they moved to Missouri, Patrick and Ellen Gallagher bought a farm east of Lamar in Barton County, Missouri.
245 – West to Missouri
During the Civil War, anthracite coal was crucial to the Union. Many of the mine workers didn’t serve in the military, as coal was a critical industry to support the war effort. The owners pressured the workers for increased production.
The Gallaghers and Larges and Kellys labored on.
244 – DNA Cousins
243 – Molly Maguires
The mine workers lived under the complete control of the coal companies. It was a relationship much like the oppression from English landlords they had suffered in Ireland.
Continue reading242 – Life in Eckley
In 1854, a new mine and coal patch town of Eckley was created in southern Luzerne County wilderness.
Continue readingOnly five years later, the enterprise had proven so profitable that the town included 130 houses, a sawmill, a hotel, a company store, several shops and three churches.
Coal Patch, Take Two: The Preservation of Eckley Miners’ Village
241 – A New Mine at Eckley
The demand for anthracite coal kept growing through the 1840s and 1850s. Coal operators looked for new lands for mines.
240 – Patrick and Ellen
Bridget Large and her family were living in Tuscarora. Her sons worked as miners and laborers in a mine. By 1850, Tuscarora had several mining operations, and had grown to a population of 400.
Patrick Gallagher was also in Tuscarora.
239 – Tuscarora 1850
Bridget Large and her seven children arrived in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1844. They settled in the town of Tuscarora.
238 – Pennsylvania Anthracite
Bridget Large and her seven children arrived in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1844.
- Question: Why Pennsylvania? Why Schuylkill County?
- Answer: Anthracite coal and coal mining jobs
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