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Name: GALVIN, George Edwin
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1872 Barrytown, Dutchess, New York
Death Date: 20 Oct 1950 Jamaica, Queens, New York
First Date: 1892
Last Date: 1894
Profession: Servant of W.H. Chanler
Married: In New York 21 Dec 1905 Helen Anna Goldner b. 1879 New York, d. 15 Feb 1950 Jamaica, New York
Children: George Edwin (6 Aug 1907 New York-2001); Walter Corlett (27 Oct 1909 Leesburg, Virginia-1979); Helen Charlotte (17 July 1911 Leesburg-1911); Marion Helen (25 Feb 1913 Baltimore-2005); Evelyn Patricia (14 Nov 1916 Jersey City); David Warren (21 Nov 1918 Jersey City-2007); Daniel Terry (21 Nov 1918 Jersey City-1993)
Book Reference: Land & Sea, North, Chandler
General Information:
North - personal servant to W.H. Chanler; expedition engaging porters at Zanzibar to go to Masai District July 1892; dep. Lamu up-counry 18-9-1892; expedition arr. Daitcho 27-3-1893; returned to coast with injured Lieut. Hohnel; arr. Mombasa 18-11-1893; dep. Zanzibar for Europe 3-4-1894
Chandler - Although just 17 when they started out, George Galvin of Red Hook, New York, proved to be an able assistant to W.A. Chanler on his Kilimanjaro safari in 1889. Three years later Galvin accompanied Chanler and Ludwig von Hohnel on their perilous trip through the Northern Fronteir District.
Chandler, a loyal employer (as witness the annuity he paid to Von Hohnel when the Austrian fell upon hard times late in life), treated Galvin well after their African days were over. For some years Galvin managed Chanler's horse-breeding farm in Virginia and later worked as a travel agent at New York's Vanderbilt Hotel (Chanler was a part owner of the hotel). Galvin died at age 79 in Jamaica, New York, in 1951.