Edward F. Gallahue  

The Seed in Indiana
Monday, Apr. 16, 1951
Time Magazine

If business and industry beat the bushes for the best young recruits, why sho uldn't the Christian ministry do the same? For Indiana's Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines, the question had a special significance: the Methodist Church needs 1,200 new ministers a year, but it is currently getting only about 650. To help him do something about it, a hard-driving Indianapolis insuranceman named Edward F. Gallahue borrowed an idea or two from business salesmanship.

Insuranceman Gallahue (American States Insurance Co.) laid out the campaign. Ministers in each of Indiana's 17 Methodist districts were asked to select one or more outstanding boys in their congregations who might be candidates for the ministry. Then, at a big get-together in Indianapolis, the boys were to be exposed to the arguments for devoting their lives to the church. Nothing high-pressure, though, said Bishop Raines—"We prepare the soil and plant the seed and then let God's sunshine do the work."

The young men turned out nearly 400 strong—some of them in crew cuts and dazzling bow ties. Methodist Walter H. Judd, Minnesota's medical-missionary Congressman, drew long applause when he spoke of the folly of chasing life's "glittering prizes" instead of choosing careers "you will be proud to look back on when you get to the end of the line."

Kermit Morrison of DePauw University, six-letter athlete, announced that he had reached a decision; it is going to be the ministry for him. "I can look around the room and count eight men who have made the same decision I have, and there's not one sissy among them . . . It's an opportunity to take something to humanity, and not something from it."

Last week, some of the young men registered at Indianapolis' Broadway Methodist Church for further discussion and field trips. They were joined by teen-age girls who wanted to become missionaries, church secretaries, Sunday school teachers or social workers. In all, the experiment netted 350 who were interested enough in church vocations to ask for more information. Insuranceman Gallahue picked up the tab for the whole affair: about $2,200

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Community Hospital was founded on August 6, 1956, at the corner of 16th Street and Ritter Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis. The hospital was the result of a massive fund-raising effort started out by volunteers who envisioned a hospital closer to the booming east side, instead of driving all the way downtown for healthcare. Volunteers began a house-to-house campaign, collecting loose pocket change. Soon funds poured in from busiesses and civic organizations. One media account called it "the swiftest, most effective fund-raising campaign of our time." The name "Community Hospital" was chosen by leaders because of the massive involvement of the neighbors and community of the east side to help build the hospital. Ground was broken in 1954 at a 28-acre site donated by farmer Edward F. Gallahue.

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Butler University's president Alexander E. Jones, acting 1962–1963; 1963–....In the 1960s Jones took a strong stand against student protesters, telling those who opposed university policies “to leave and go to institutions with policies more to their liking.” Jones’s stance prompted Edward F. Gallahue to leave a $1 million gift to the campaign for the science building, successfully completing the campaign...

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Edward's Odyssey: An Autobiography
By Edward F. Gallahue
216 pp. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1970. $5.95.

....I couldn't make Ed Gallahue or his recently published autobiography d ull or uninteresting if I tried, but I'm no genius. Here is a man of uncommon ability and enthusiasm who was a business success before he was forty,....

Edward F. Gallahue was born in 1902 near Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has lived, worked, played, suffered, and dreamed ever since.... he initiated with his brother a new insurance company specializing in automobile coverage. Growing by leaps and bounds, the American States Insurance Company reflected the management ability and executive imagination of Edward himself....

Edward's Odyssey is not just the story of business success. As the author notes early in his book, "I found it impossible for business to constitute my whole life."....

...Mr. Gallahue joined the Methodist Church and immediately became engaged in a program for recruiting nurses in the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital. The effort was unexpectedly and extraordinarily successful. He went on to sponsor the Indiana Mental Health Association, putting in his own money and enlisting the aid of Drs. Karl and Will Menninger. He headed a public hospital financial campaign which raised more money than the city had ever raised for anything. From 1954 to 1960, he organized six conferences on mental health and religion at the Menninger clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He initiated the formation of Elton Trueblood's lay religious movement at Earlham College, known as "The Yokefellow Associates." And from 1963 to 1968, he worked with several members of the Princeton Seminary fac ulty to set up two conferences on world religions and one on contemporary theology.... "
Hugh T. Kerr
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey
Theology Today

Edward Francis Gallahue BIRTH 12 May 1902 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana DEATH 16 Jul 1971 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana BURIAL JUL 19,1971 Crown Hill Cemetery son of Philip Milton Gallahue and Pearle Marie Teague

E. F. Gallaue, 69, dies
Indianapolis (AP) Edward F. Gallaue, 69, Indianapolis philanthropist. Methodist lay leader and co-founder of the American States Insurance Group died yesterday in an Indianapolis hospital. He retired in 1963. - Courier Journal Jul 17, 1971


Gallahue - Mr. Edward F. Gallahue, 200 Forest Blvd., husband of Mrs. Dorothy F. Gallahue, father of Miss Gloria A. Gallahue, brother of Mr. Dudley R. Gallahue, passed away Friday. Funeral sevices Monday afternoon 2 o'clock Meridian Street Methodist Church. Friends may call Flanner & Buchanna Broad Ripple Mortuary after SUnday Noon - Indianapolis News Jul. 17.

E. F. Gallahue Rites to be Monday
Services for Edward Francis Gallahue, 69. philanthropist and founder of the American States Insurance company will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Meridian Street Methodist Church

He died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.

Friends may call at Flanner and Buchanan Broad RIpple Mortuary after noon tomorrow.

Memorial may be sent to the Marion COunty Cancer Assoicaiton for reseach Honorary ball bearers include:
Dr. James O. Ritchery
Dr. Alexander E. Jones
John J. vanBenten
Lester Irons
John D. Phelan
Paul G. Pitz
O. C. WInters
Robert E. Stafford
James A. Gleis
Harry T. Ice.
Frank J. Hoke
Kurt F. Pantzer
Otto N. Frenzel
George A. Kuhn Sr.
William C. Griffith Jr.
William o. Powell Jr.


Survuvirs - wife Dorothy; daughter Gloria Ann.

married 31 Oct 1943 Marion county, Indiana Dorothy Virginia Fitzpatrick Birth 5 May 1914 Indianadianapolis, Indiana Death 8 Dec 1991 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana BURIAL DEC 11,1991 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, daughter of William Dervin Fitzpatrick and Melle Springer

Dorothy Hamilton professional artist Services from Dorothy Gallahue Hamilton, 77, Indianapolis, a professional artist, will be at 10 a.m. Wedesnday in Gothic Chapel, Crown Hill Cemetery, with calling until 6 tonight in Flanner & Buchanan Broad RIpple Mortuary

Mrs. Hamilton, who died Sunday in St. Vicents HOspitalm was a will known artist in her former residences of Bocac Raton, Fla. an Columbus, Ind. as well as in Indianapolis

Active with the Indianapolis Art League and the Indianapolis Mueseum of Art Alliance, she received an honorary dotorate of arts from Butler Univerisity in 1978.

Her first husband, Edward F. Gallahue, founded American States incurance, Indianapolis.

A building at Butler University, the DOrothy and Edward Gallahue Hall, was named in their honor.

Mrs. Hamilton wal also active with the Socoiety of Arts and Letters, Woodstock Club,
Dramatic CLub, and Planned Perenthood Association.

She had served on the board of directos for the Children's Museum and Community Hospitals.

Mrs. Hamilton was a member of Meridian Street United Methodist Church, Meridian Hills COuntry Club, and Dramatic club.

She was the widow of Edward F. Gallahue and CLarence o. Hamilton.

Survivors - daughter Gloris Smulan; stepsons the Rev. George, CHarles Hamilton; step-daughters Elaine Jacobson, Louise Shirt; one granddaughter. - Indianapolis News Dec. 10 1991.

They had:

Gloria Ann Gallahue

 
Marion County, Indiana, U.S., Marriage Index, 1925-2012 
Name	Edward Gallahue
Gender	Male
Marriage Date	31 Oct 1943
Marriage Place	Marion, Indiana, USA
Spouse	 Dorothy Fitzpatrick

Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017 
Name	Edward F Gallahue
Gender	Male
Race	White
Age	69
Marital Status	Married
Birth Date	12 May 1902
Birth Place	Indiana
Death Date	16 Jul 1971
Death Place	Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
Death Registration Date	1971
Father	 Dorothy Gallahue
Mother	 Pearl Marie Teague
Spouse Dorothy Gallahue 

Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017 
Name	Dorothy Gallahue Hamilton	
Birth	5 May 1914 Indianadianapolis, Indiana	New
Death	8 Dec 1991 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA	New
Father	Dervin Fitzpatrick	New
Mother	Melle Springer

 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 
Name	Dorothy Virginia Fitzpatrick	
Birth	5 May 1914 Indianapolis, Indiana 
Death	Dec 1991	New
Father	William D Fitzpatrick 
Mother	Melle V Springer