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