1870'S Curca 1878 Photo Ivins and McGalliard

Slowly but surely some of the pieces are beginning to come together! Thanks to Dave McGalliard, Glenn Rogers, Eleanor Goldy Guear, and George Goldy, the early years of Hamilton's rural farm boundaries are seemingly coming into clearer focus. Stay with me here: The McGalliard family owned a huge area of real estate that suggests reaching from White Horse southward along "Old Olden Avenue" to the Goldy Farm at Cedar Lane and Olden. The Goldy Farm extended eastward to encompass the Fred Kuser Farm to Pond Run Road. (Fred Kuser purchased the land on which today's Kuser Park is located from Benjamin Goldy.) There has yet to be a definitive link with the Pittman Farm, the Wright land holdings over in the Cedar Lane and Chambers Street area, the Symmes Hutchinson Farm along Cedar Street to Chambers, the Abner Chambers Farm further toward Greenwood Avenue, and the Colonial era Anderson Farm which bounded the Chambers Farm and extended eastward all the way to the area of Greenwood Cemetery. If we only had a map of the Hamilton Township of the 1850 era!

A caveat from Tom: The above is pure speculation on my part, 

based upon what I have learned from the McGalliard, Goldy, Plaag, Lawton, and Kuser families. 

Future discoveries could change the information above; stay tuned.  The 1875 map of Hamilton shows much of the land broken up into smaller farms 

Hi Tom,

I would estimate the date of the McGalliard/ Ivins photo to be circa late 1870's. Wm V McGalliard was born in 1857 and I would say the photo dates him in his 20's.

Thanks for all your help,

Glenn Rogers

THANKS, GLENN. I YIELD TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF AGES AND DETAILS ON THE MCGALLIARD FAMILY MEMBERS. THE DATE HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK TO THE LATE 1870'S AND ESTIMATING Ca. 1878. THANKS AGAIN TO YOU AND DAVE FOR BRINGING THIS HISTORIC WHITE HORSE/MCGALLIARD FAMILY HISTORIC FAMILY TREASURES TO AN INTERESTED PUBLIC.

TOM GLOVER