John Henry Galloway

Brief Life History of John Henry

When John Henry Galloway was born on 20 July 1848, in Daviess, Kentucky, United States, his father, David Robert Galloway, was 30 and his mother, Ann Frances E. Osborne, was 24. He married Sophia Virginia Wall on 6 January 1872, in Daviess, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Curdsville, Daviess, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Calhoun, McLean, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 4 March 1926, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Calhoun, McLean, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Henry Galloway
1848–1926
Sophia Virginia Wall
1855–1923
Marriage: 6 January 1872
Benjamin Franklin Galloway
1873–1936
William Allen Galloway
1876–1946
David R. Galloway
1879–1945
Annie K Galloway
1883–1951
Winfield Winkler Galloway
1885–1960
Edward Galloway
1891–1982
Albert Galloway
1897–1950

Sources (21)

  • John H Galloway in household of David R Galloway, "United States Census, 1860"
  • John H. Galleway, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • John Henry Galloway, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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