Name: Eleanor Gallagher and Glen McDonough announce their engagement, 1958
Start: 1958-10
End: 1958-10
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1958-10
Kind: Announcement
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: marriagedemographycommunitymilitary
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Eleanor Mary Gallagher and Glen McDonough announced their engagement in October 1958. The Beacon identifies their island-school backgrounds and says Glen was serving with the U.S. Army in Germany.

Evidence limits

The notice does not provide a wedding date, civil record, military file, or complete family identities.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 1958, “ENGAGED.”
Announces Eleanor Mary Gallagher, daughter of James W. Gallagher, and Glen McDonough, son of Sophia and the late William McDonough. It summarizes Eleanor’s Beaver Island High and Aquinas College education, teaching, and Grand Rapids employment, and says Glen was a Beaver Island High graduate serving with the U.S. Army in Germany. It does not provide a wedding date, civil record, military file, or complete family identities. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1958, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the engagement notice; it does not expand the education, employment, military, or marriage record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Eleanor Gallagher and Glen McDonough announce their engagement, 1958”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-eleanor-gallagher-glen-mcdonough-engagement-1958/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1958, “ENGAGED.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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