1918
John
2010
John F. Gallagher
January 31, 1918 — January 29, 2010
John Frank Gallagher passed away peacefully at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital on Friday morning, January 29, 2010.
Born January 31, 1918 in West Pittston he was the youngest son of George P. and Julia Gaffney Gallagher. He was a graduate of West Pittston High School, class of 1935.
He achieved the rank of Captain in the Army during his service in World War II in the European Theater. He then graduated from Hamilton College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
John F. Gallagher had a distinguished career in publishing, first achieving prominence at Harcourt Brace in the 1950s for his work on the Harbrace Handbook. He later headed the Michigan State University Press and the college departments at T. Y. Crowell and St. Martin’s Press.
In the course of his publishing career, he worked with such distinguished authors and scholars as Robert Penn Warren, Loren Eiseley, Abba Lerner, A. J. Ayer, Isaac Asimov, Gwendolyn Carter, George Gaylord Simpson, Cleanth Brooks, and Jacques Barzun. He also edited and wrote the introduction to the best-selling memoir, “My Life and Loves” by Frank Harris, the eminent Victorian literary figure.
He returned to the Wyoming Valley in 1985 and became an avid supporter of the West Pittston Historical Society while researching his family’s genealogy.
Jack Gallagher had a lifelong love of literature, and seldom could be found without a book in hand. He was intellectually curious to his last days. He also delighted in opera, good food, and his friends. But his great treasure was his daughters.
John F. Gallagher is survived by his four daughters, Sarah Woodside Gallagher of New York, New York; Elizabeth Coupland Gallagher of Denver, Colorado; Julia C.P. Gallagher of New York, New York, and Frances M.C. Gallagher of Farmersville, Texas, his son-in-law Richard Dangerfield (Elizabeth’s husband), and his many cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Celebration of John’s Life will be held Wednesday at 12:30 PM at graveside in Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Hanover Township.
Visitation will be held Wednesday from 11 AM to 12 PM at McLaughlin’s Family Funeral Service, 142 South Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre.
Born January 31, 1918 in West Pittston he was the youngest son of George P. and Julia Gaffney Gallagher. He was a graduate of West Pittston High School, class of 1935.
He achieved the rank of Captain in the Army during his service in World War II in the European Theater. He then graduated from Hamilton College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
John F. Gallagher had a distinguished career in publishing, first achieving prominence at Harcourt Brace in the 1950s for his work on the Harbrace Handbook. He later headed the Michigan State University Press and the college departments at T. Y. Crowell and St. Martin’s Press.
In the course of his publishing career, he worked with such distinguished authors and scholars as Robert Penn Warren, Loren Eiseley, Abba Lerner, A. J. Ayer, Isaac Asimov, Gwendolyn Carter, George Gaylord Simpson, Cleanth Brooks, and Jacques Barzun. He also edited and wrote the introduction to the best-selling memoir, “My Life and Loves” by Frank Harris, the eminent Victorian literary figure.
He returned to the Wyoming Valley in 1985 and became an avid supporter of the West Pittston Historical Society while researching his family’s genealogy.
Jack Gallagher had a lifelong love of literature, and seldom could be found without a book in hand. He was intellectually curious to his last days. He also delighted in opera, good food, and his friends. But his great treasure was his daughters.
John F. Gallagher is survived by his four daughters, Sarah Woodside Gallagher of New York, New York; Elizabeth Coupland Gallagher of Denver, Colorado; Julia C.P. Gallagher of New York, New York, and Frances M.C. Gallagher of Farmersville, Texas, his son-in-law Richard Dangerfield (Elizabeth’s husband), and his many cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Celebration of John’s Life will be held Wednesday at 12:30 PM at graveside in Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Hanover Township.
Visitation will be held Wednesday from 11 AM to 12 PM at McLaughlin’s Family Funeral Service, 142 South Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre.
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