Galland that there was no authority that could constitutionally deprive them of that right that they were citizens of the United States and entitled to the same political rights and legal protection as other citizens that their religious opinions had nothing to do with ‘our political transactions.’ Isaac Galland published, in 1840, a book called ‘Galland’s Iowa Emigrant.’ In this work he gives much of the history of territorial Iowa, then including what is now Minnesota and half of the present Dakotas. The reply of Governor Lucas was characteristic and manly.

This same Isaac Galland, then an elder in the Mormon (Latter-Day Saints) church, in February, 1839, wrote Governor Robert Lucas, of Iowa, inquiring whether his church people would be permitted to purchase lands and settle in the territory of Iowa.

He afterwards lived in Lee county, and then moved to Council Bluffs in 1846.” He laid out the town of Farmington in said county.

Coming from Indiana in 1831, he settled in Van Buren county and took the first white settler’s claim there. Abel Galland, in company with his son, William, settled in what is now known as Galland’s Grove, Shelby county, in 1848. She is the first white child born in Iowa. Galland, the oldest son of Isaac Galland, gave me the information contained in this letter he was the last of the family to pass away, living to the age of ninety years, dying in 1911. “Isaac Galland, a brother of Abel Galland, came from Indiana to Lee county in 1827, coming to and giving his name to what is now the town of Galland at the head of the government canal above Keokuk. Franklin, of Harlan, Iowa, for the following information in a letter from Mrs. Eliza Worley, of Deloit, Crawford county, Iowa, and to Thomas N. The editor of this history is under obligations to Mrs. It derived its name from the name of the first family to make settlement there, Abel Galland and his son coming to this place in 1848. It was in this grove, known as Galland’s Grove, that the first permanent settlement in the county was made in the late forties. About one-half of what is now known as Grove township was, at one time, covered by a heavy natural grove, the largest in the county.

Abel by C.J. Bishop