page_title: List of people from Galena, Illinois
section_title: 19th-century residents
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Galena, Illinois / 19th-century residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard H. Cain, member of the United States House of Representatives.
context_page_description: The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Galena, Illinois.
context_section_description: John F. Beard (1822–?), lived in Galena for one year in 1845; plasterer and Wisconsin State Assemblyman
  James Beckwourth (1798–1866), explorer; came to Galena as a miner in the 1820s; some reports say that he was an indentured servant
  Henry M. Billings (1806–1862), came to Galena as a miner in 1828; served in the Wisconsin Territorial House. In 1848, he served in the Wisconsin State Senate and then the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1858
  John Wilford Blackstone, Sr. (1796–1868), miner and lawyer in Galena; served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
  Ebenezer Brigham (1789–1861), one of the first settlers of Galena, in 1822; later one of the first permanent settlers of Dane County, Wisconsin; served on Territorial Council
  Richard H. Cain (1825–1887), Congressman, bishop, vice president of the "Colored Convention" (1853), first president of Paul Quinn College
  Donald A. Callahan (1876–?), politician, born and raised in Galena; Republican Party nominee for the United States Senate seat in Idaho in 1938; was defeated; served in both chambers of the Idaho state legislature
  Thompson Campbell (1811–1868), politician, miner in Galena; Illinois Secretary of State (1843–1846); United States Representative for Illinois' 6th Congressional District (1851–1853)
  M. H. Cleary (1853–1933), Illinois state legislator, lawyer, and physician
  Samuel Crawford (1820–1860), Wisconsin Supreme Court
  Henry D. Dement (1840–1927), son of John Dement and grandson of Henry Dodge; served in the 13th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment; elected to two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives starting in 1870, then two terms in the Illinois Senate, then two terms as Illinois Secretary of State (1880–1888)
  John Dement (1804–1883), Receiver of Public Moneys (two tenures); U.S. representative; delegate to every Illinois Constitutional Convention during his lifetime; president pro tempore of the 1862 and 1870 conventions
  Nelson Dewey (1813–1889), clerk for Daniels, Dennison, and Co. in Galena for a month in 1836; first governor of Wisconsin (1848–52)
  Moses Dickson (1824–1901), lived for a brief time and was married in Galena; abolitionist; helped organize the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, the Order of Twelve, which was created in Galena and used St. Louis as its headquarters to aid slaves in the Underground Railroad
  Augustus C. Dodge (1812–1883), politician; worked in his father's lead mines (1827–1837); part of the first set of senators from Iowa (1848–1855); Minister to Spain (1855–1859)
  Thomas Drummond (1809–1890), lawyer, had a practice in Galena (1835–50); member of the Illinois General Assembly as a Whig (1840–1841); during this time he became acquainted with fellow Whig Assemblyman Abraham Lincoln; judge for the Circuit Court of Illinois (c. 1841–1850), judge for the District of Illinois
  Jacob Fawcett (1847–1928), Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice
  John Froelich (1849–1933), lived most of his early life and attended school in Galena; in 1892, developed the first stable gasoline/petrol-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears
  John H. Gear (1825–1900), 11th Governor of Iowa (1878–1882), Congressman; senator; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1892–1893
  Joseph Gillespie (1809–1885), mined in Galena; member of the Illinois State Senate
  Henry Gratiot (1789–1836), trader and businessman who moved to Galena to raise his family in a free state; helped conduct a treaty that ended the Black Hawk War for the Galena area; his daughter married Elihu Washburne
  Moses Hallett (1834–1913), born in Galena; lawyer; moved to Colorado as a gold miner in 1860; judge on United States District Court for the District of Colorado 1877–1906
  William S. Hamilton (1797–1850), son of Alexander Hamilton; captain during the Winnebago War in the volunteer Illinois Militia; commanded a company raised in Galena, the Galena Mounted Volunteers
  Granville Hedrick (1814–1881), leader in the Latter Day Saints movement after the 1844 succession crisis; worked in Galena lead mines, 1843–44
  Stephen P. Hempstead (1812–1883), 2nd Governor of Iowa
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caption: Bishop, college president, and U.S. Representative Richard H. Cain
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