Tom Gallagher cured unsuccessfully in Saranac Lake in the 1920s. He died at age 42. His wife's name was Martha.
He was the father of John J, Gallagher who served on the USS Plunkett.
Excerpt from Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett, by James Sullivan, 2020, p.31
It had been twenty years since Tom Gallagher had returned home from a yearlong sojourn in Saranac, where he'd hoped the open-air "cure porches" of the famed treatment center might invigorate his lungs and undo the disease. They did not. Tom struggled another year against the disease, and then it took him at the age of forty-two when he was in the prime of his family life and his professional life as a broker for Charles Storrow & Company. Such was the esteem they felt for Tom at the cotton and wool brokerage on State Street, that Storrow continued to funnel money to Martha Gallagher so she could keep that home. That, and the odd property tax abatement from Mayor James Michael Curley, allowed the Gallaghers to live in a home burnished with ornate interior woodwork, chandeliers, and oriental carpets.
