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 GALLOWAY

GALLOWAY

Scriplnri- (,18-JO;; Apjmd to tin- rrotestant J'liblic (1834) and Hix Letters of Adcice (1834). The story of his life lias been told bj' the Very Rev. Thomas Heyden and by Sarali M. Browuson. He dio.l in Loretto, Canil)ria county. Pa.. May 6, 1840.

QALLOWAY, Charles Betts, M.E. bishop, was born at Kosciusko, Miss., Sept. 1, 1849. He was graduated from the University of Mississippi in 18(i8 and entered the Mississippi conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, in that year. He was a professor in Madison college. Miss., 1869-70, and was stationed as pastor at Black Hawk in 18T0, Fort Gibson in 18T1, Y'azoo City, 1872-73, Jackson, 1874-77, Vicksburg, 1878- 81, and at Jackson, Miss., again, in 1882. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 he was sta- tioned at Vicksburg, where he nursed the sick, buried the dead, was stricken with the fever and reported dead, and liis obituary was published. He was editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1883-86. He was ordained bishop of the Metliodist Episcopal church. South, in 1886. He was president of the Prohibition executive committee of Mississippi: fraternal messenger to the General conference of the Methodist church of Canada in 1886 and to the Wesleyau confer- ence of England in 1892; a delegate to the cen- tennial conference in Baltimore, Md., in 1884, and to the Ecumenical Methodist conference at Washington, D.C., in 1891, and officially visited missions in Japan and China in 1894 and in Brazil in 1897. He was president of the board of educa- tion of the Methodist Episcopal church. South; a memter of the board of trustees of the John F. Slater fund, and president of the board of trus- tees of ilillsops college, Jackson, Miss. He was marrieil St-pt. 1, 1869, to Harriet Willis of Vicks- burg. Jliss. He received the degree D.D. from the Uiiiversitj' of Mississippi in 1882 and that of LL.D. from Xorthwestern univer.sity, Evanston, 111. lie is the author of: Life of Bishop Linus Parker; Methodism, a Child of I'mridence (1877); Handbook of Prohibition (1886); Aaron's Hod in Public Morals (1888); Open Letters on Prohibition, controver.sy with Jefferson Davis (1888); A Cir- cuit of the Globe; Modern Missions: Their Evidential Value, and Christianity and the American Common- tceallh.

GALLOWAY, Joseph, delegate, was born at West River, Anne Arundel county, Md, al)out 1729; son of Peter and Elizabeth (Rigbie) (Jallo- way. He became a lawyer in Philadelphia in 17.50, and was a friend of Benjamin Frankhn and in 171U became the custodian of his valuable papers during Franklin's absence in Europe. He was a member of the assembly of Pennsylvania, 17.'57-7.5, and speaker, 1766-74. He advocated a royal form of government for the province and as the Revolution dawned he placed himself on

the Tory side in that niovcment. His influence in the assembly gained for hmi election as dele- gate to the provincial congress and he served, 1774-75. He proposed to congress a government directed by a president-general appointed by the king and a grand council, to bo chosen every tliird year by the respective assemblies of the colonies. After the adjournment of the congress of 177.5 he retired to his country-seat, where lie was visited in 1776 by Benjamin Franklin, who urged him to join the patriot cause. He joined General Howe in December, 177G, at New Y'ork, accompanied Iiim to Philadelphia and was liead of the civil government of the city during its occupation by the British army. Wlien Howe evacuated the city Galloway went to England where he testified in 1779 before the house of commons as to the incompetency of Howe in conducting the war in America, The general assembly of Pennsylvania in 1788 convicted him of high treason and confiscated his property, valued at forty thousand pounds. He was mar- ried to Grace, a daughter of Lawrence Growden, speaker of the Pennsylvania assembly and justice of the supreme court of the province. She brought to liim a considerable fortune and re- mained in Pennsylvania after the evacuation of Philadelphia to prevent its confiscation. After her death much of the real estate reverted to lier daughter. He received the degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1769. He published Historical and Political Peflectlons on the American Rebellion (1780); Brief commentaries on such Parts of the Eevelatlon and other Prophecies as immediately refer to the present times In ichlch the Several Alleijorlcal Types and Exjwesslrms of the Prophecies are translated Into Their Literal Meanings (1802); and The Prophetic or Anticipated History of the Church of Borne, &c., &c. (1803); the last being an answer to a criticism on his second book by the Dean of Canterbury. He died in Watford, Herts, England, Aug. 29, 1803.

GALLOWAY, Samuel, lawj-er, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., March 22, 1812. He removed to Ohio in 1819 and was graduated from Miami university in 1833. He attended Princeton the- ological seminary, 183.5-36; was a teacher at Hamilton, Ohio, 1836-37; a teacher in the depart- ment of languages, Miami university, 1837-38; and professor of ancient languages, Hanover college. Ind., 1839^0. In 1843 he was admitted to the bar and practised at Hillsboro, Ohio, till the following year when he was elected secretary of state and removed to Columbus, Ohio. lu 18.50 he declined a re-election to this office and resumed the practice of law. He was a Re- publican representative in the 34th congress, lS.55-.57. He rendered legal service to the U.S. •"•ar department during the civil war, was active