Gallik (Gálfy) András (or Adam?)

* Berzéte, 1818 ? – † Košice, June 18, 1885 / doctor, officer in the American Civil War ; ; Due to the early death of his father, a military officer, he had to survive in difficult financial circumstances and therefore became a merchant's apprentice in Dobsiná, later studying at a military school in Levoča. After completing this, he chose the merchant's career again and opened a shop in Košice. At this time, he also published two German-language books: Die Folgen der Verirrung, 1845, Idealismus und Materialismus, 1846. During the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848/1849, he served as a first lieutenant in the National Guard, and was even wounded in the battle against the Serbs at Jankovác. After the defeat, he emigrated to France, becoming a gravedigger in Le Havre. In the 1850s, he sailed to the United States of America with a Polish friend. He became a lumberjack in Cincinnati, later a factory worker. After learning English, he gave fencing and riding lessons, and in 1856 he opened a fencing school in Dayton, but also ran a traveling cigar shop. However, his money ran out, so he went gold-diggering in Australia and New Zealand. Failing to find treasure, he tried brickmaking in Melbourne and then pastoralism. Finally, he sailed back to the USA. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he fought on the side of the North under the command of General Grant. In recognition of his heroism, he was awarded the rank of major (according to other sources, he was promoted to colonel and then major general17, but reliable data on this have not yet been found). After the war, he was appointed governor of Missouri, but he fell ill with yellow fever and moved to the more favorable climate of Boston, where he enrolled in the medical school of the university and received his medical degree in 1871. He practiced medicine for years in Boston and then in Cincinnati. (According to MÉL18, he obtained a veterinary qualification and operated an animal hospital in Kansas City.) In 1881, he returned to Hungary and settled in Košice, where his son, Géza Gallik (1848–1900) (®Kassa) worked as a pharmacist. During his years in America, he reported for Hungarian newspapers. In the USA, he also published two medical books and a memoir in German: For Digestion of Stomach (Kansas City, 1870, Rheumatism and Purifiary. The System from Mercury, 1871, Das Leben eines Ungaren in Europa, Australien und Amerika (Cincinnati, 1886)