AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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I>R. ELISHA GALLUP. 



A quarter of a century ago the name 

 of E. Gallup was well and favorably 

 known to bee-keeping in two hemis- 

 •pheres. Learning that he is now resid- 

 ing in Santa Ana, Calif., we wi'ote him 

 in regard to publishing his biography 



DR. E. GALLUP. 



and picture, and as a result of that cor- 

 respondence we have the great pleasure 

 to present to our readers this week one 

 of the once " old wheel-horses" of bee- 

 culture, but just as he looks now. 



It will be remembered that Bro. G. M 

 Doolittle dedicated his book on "Scien- 

 tific Queen-Rearing " to Dr. Gallup, who 

 was Bro. D.'s friend and teacher in bee- 

 keeping 25 years ago. He also uses 

 what is known as the "Gallup frame," 

 as Dr. Gallup was the inventor of a hive 

 and frame which bore his name. 



In the July number of the Illustrated 

 Bee Journal, published by Mr. N. C. 

 Mitchell, in 1870, at Indianapolis, Ind., 

 we find the following in connection with 

 a picture of Dr. Gallup, showing him as 

 he looked 23 years ago : 



Elisha Gallup was born on Aug. 22, 

 1820, in the town of Melbourne, county 

 of Sherbrook, Canada East. His parents 

 were born in Connecticut,on Long Island 

 Sound. By occupation he is a farmer, 

 with the exception of eleven years a 

 miller. He removed to Wisconsin in 

 1859, and settled in the town of Meto- 

 men. Fond du Lac county. In June, 

 1865, he removed to Mitchell county, 

 Iowa. And now, in the fear that we 

 may not do justice, we will here intro- 

 duce friend Gallup, and let him speak 

 for himself : 



"From my earliest youth I have been 

 an enthusiastic admirer of the busy bee ; 

 in fact, my earliest recollections are of 

 the bees and bee-hives. Often have I 

 heard my mother say, if she lost me 

 when a little fellow, she was sure to find 

 me by the bee-hives. My intense desire 

 to learn and investigate the bees in 

 every particular has been such that I 

 have dreamed of them at night, and 

 thought of them in my waking hours to 

 an almost absorbing extent, and to-day I 

 am still a student; and I find those per- 

 sons who proclaim themselves finished, 

 in every branch, are the ones who in 

 reality k7iow the lea^. 



" My early advantages were of a lim- 

 ited nature in the way of education — 

 scarcely common-school advantages did 

 I have. My first reading upon the sub- 

 ject of bees, was a small pamphlet writ- 

 ten by a Mr. Weeks, of Vermont, which 

 abounded in errors. My next was a 

 work by Mr. T. B. Miner. I picked up 

 ray first real insight into the true system 

 of bee-keeping from an old German, by 

 the name of Wellhuysen. He made 125 

 colonies from one, in two seasons. And 

 here I will remark, that I have been 

 suspected of getting my knowledge upon 

 the subject of bee-culture from Mr. 

 Langstroth's work ; but to settle that 

 matter quickly and satisfactorily, I have 

 never been known to quote from Mr. 

 L. ; neither could I have done so, from 

 the fact I had it not to quote from. Once 

 I remember to have had the privilege of 

 skimming through it one evening, at the 

 house of a friend, and that was merely 

 to see if there were any new ideas put 

 forth. 



"Eight years ago last season (in 

 1861) I obtained my first movable-comb 



