H. P. Gallup, Stables

No. 80 H.P. Gallup Stables. Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club Year Book. (1905). Edited and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan.

The stables was located on Welles Avenue. Gallup lived at 22 Barnes Street, now Banton Street.

The following was published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club Year Book 1905. Ed. and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan. p. 86

Director Hollis P. Gallup is Boston born and has lived in Boston and Dorchester the most of his life.  His father was a stable keeper, but died with Mr. Gallup was a child.  The latter has been a dealer in horses and cattle, milk dealer, coal and wood dealer, and stable keeper at the same time.  For some years his stable was on Dorchester Avenue, opposite Melville Avenue. For about ten ears his large boarding and sale stable has been on Barnes Street, and it was his office that the Easy Club (which furnished several members to Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club) met.  Mr. Gallup is the only member of the club who has never missed a meeting, and he has put in more new members than any other man.  He has owned a good many speedy and valuable horses, among the Velvet by Edgemark; Bob Fitz, 2.17 1-4; Rubsley G, 2.16 3-4; Queenie, 2.20 1-4; Dark Secret; Celia, Nagaina by Arion; Dewey by son of Electioneer, dam Josephine by Daniel Lambert; and the reliable old Ashmont needing no introduction.

[Note: Barnes street is now Banton Street.  Barnes was at times called Easy Street, but officially named Barnes in 1895.  Source: A Record of the Streets, Alley, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston.  Boston: Printing Department, 1910.]

H. P. Gallup & Co., Boarding and Sale Stable; Horse Clipping by Power; Barns Street, Ashmont

The following entry is from Picturesque Boston Highlands, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester.  (New York : Mercantile Illustrating Co., 1895)

H. P. Gallup & Co., Boarding and Sale Stable; Horse Clipping by Power; Barns Street, Ashmont

No. 739 Hollis P. Gallup and his trotters. Top: Earl King and bottom: Hollis Bingen. With photograph of Hollis P. Gallup. Published in the The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston. (1914).
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