CROSS CO, AR - WILLIAM GANLEY - Bio

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Submitted by: Jason Presley <daclyde@usa.net>
        Date: 10 Nov 2003
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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     William Ganley was a son of James Ganley, who was born in Ireland and
emigrated to this country soon after his marriage, locating in New Jersey,
about five miles below Trenton, on the Delaware River; afterward he moved to
Philadelphia, where he died about 1833.  His wife, formerly Bridet Doane,
died in St. Louis from the cholera, as did several of the children.  They
reared a familu of eleven children, of whom William, our subject, was the
seventh.  The latter was born in New Jersey, March 17, 1827, and was reared
in that State until about eighteen years of age, when he left home and came 
west, engaging in rafting lumber down the Mississippi from Minnesota to St. Louis.
In this occupation he continued for eleven years, being the first man 
to take a raft of pine lumber from Minnesota to that city between the points
mentioned, an industry that has now grown to one of considerable proportions.
He then started for California, but passing through Cross County, Ark., became
interested in the beauty of the country and stopped here, and has since made
it his home.  When first coming to this county Mr. Ganley embarked in the
lumber business and afterward went to farming, in which he is still interested.
He was married about 1852, to Martha Miles, a native of Alabama, who died in
1862, leaving five children, one of whom only is living, Bridget, still at
home.  Mr. Ganley now owns 600 acres of land, with 100 acres under cultivation,
located near the Tyronza River; he has good buildings and a large orchard.  He
is a Catholic in religion and a Democrat in politics.