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Summary
Kenneth Gallagher was a nine-year-old Saint James boy named in the July 1909 account of a raft rescue near Beaver Island. The report says he and Bertrand McDonough drifted through Friday night before the tug Violet rescued them Saturday.
Evidence and limits
This record is intentionally limited to the newspaper’s event-specific identification. No parents, birth date, later residence, or relationship to other Gallagher records is asserted.
Open questions
- Can island census, parish, school, or family records identify this Kenneth Gallagher more fully?
- Did he remain on Beaver Island after the 1909 rescue?
See also
Sources
- Charlevoix County Herald, July 3, 1909, “Adrift on a Raft.”The report names Kenneth Gallagher as a nine-year-old Saint James boy and one of the two children rescued by the Violet after drifting on a cedar-tie raft. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Kenneth Gallagher”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/kenneth-gallagher/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix County Herald, July 3, 1909, “Adrift on a Raft.”.
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