Galloway, Walter Laitle

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 18 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 05 May 1910, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 07 Jan 1920, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 21 Apr 1950, Grove City, Mercer Co., PA; Retired

Walter married Surrena, Sarah Blanche on 27 Dec 1893 in Franklin Co., PA. Sarah was born on 06 Jul 1875 in Venango Co., PA; died on 08 Dec 1972 in Grove City, Pine Twp., Mercer Co., PA; was buried in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 23 Oct 1850, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA
• Census: 23 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: Jul 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 18 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 23 Jun 1900, Richland, Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 16 Apr 1910, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

Notes:

From 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and representative citizens by James A McKee (1909); Pages 1435-1436
JOHN FULTON GALLAWAY, a well-known citizen and substantial business man of Hilliard, Butler County, Pennsylvania, is proprietor of the hotel at that village and has a well-established business. He was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1849, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Ghost) Gallaway and a grandson of William Gallaway.

Thomas Gallaway was born in Ireland and was one of the following children born to his parents: William; John; Thomas; Isaac, who married Eliza Kohlter, daughter of John Kohlter of Mercer County; and Eliza, deceased. Thomas came to the United States at the age of seventeen years and landed at New York City with just seventy-five cents in his pocket. He received employment at blasting rock in the construction of the Erie Canal, and then worked for a distiller in New York State. He was an industrious man, and of a frugal and saving disposition, and while thus employed accumulated enough money to purchase a farm of 150 acres in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was a heavily timbered tract, but little of the land having been cleared. He cleared the farm and lived upon it for a time, then purchased the Ross tract of land, consisting of 300 acres, on which he engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale. He at the same time carried on a general store at Mechanicsville, in Venango County. He married there to Sarah Ghost, a daughter of Philip Ghost, of Venango County, and they reared the following children: Craft, who married Mary Ellen Atwell, a daughter of John Atwell of Mercer County, and has three children,-Thomas, Clyde and Elizabeth; Isaac, who married Mary Jane Bonner, a daughter of Archie Bonner of Venango County, by whom he has one son and two daughters,-John, Elizabeth and Susan; John F., whose name heads this sketch; Ann Elizabeth, deceased; Mary, deceased; Lytle, deceased; and Martha, deceased.

John Fulton Gallaway attended school in Venango County, after which he engaged in farming and clerked in the store conducted by his father. He purchased eighty-five acres of land one-half mile south of Westley P. O. He went from there to Callery Junction during the oil excitement and teamed, having three teams. These he traded for a store and stock of merchandise at Barkeyville, Venango County, paying the difference in value in cash. He went from there to Mechanicsville, where he rented the Woods property for one year, then purchased that farm. He later traded that farm for sixty-five acres of land located about two miles north of Harrisville, in Butler County, and carried on general farming until the marriage of his son, Walter, when he left the farm in the latter 's charge. He then returned to Mechanicsville, and after a time sold his property to Robert B. Eakin and moved to Richland Township, Butler County, where he purchased fifty acres of coal land. He later came to Hilliard and in competition with others obtained the contract for the Star Mail Route from Hilliard to Petrolia. When the rural free delivery was established he was given Route No. 52, over which he carried the mail for two years and three months. He then purchased the hotel at Hilliard, which he has since conducted with uninterrupted success.
Mr. Gallaway was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Hoffman, daughter of Walter Hoffman of Venango County, and they have four children: Thomas, who married Emma Syrena, daughter of Finley Syrena, and has three children-Ralph, Raymond and Leonard; Walter, who married Blanche Syrena, a daughter of John Syrena; Mary, who married John A. Blair, son of A. N. Blair, and has three children- Marie, John Freeman and Edna; and Ida. who married J. S. Kohlmyre, son , of Marion Kohlmyre of Butler County, and has one child, Althica. Religiously, they are members of the M. E. Church. Politically, Mr. Gallaway is a Prohibitionist.


Died:
Cancer of Face

John married Hoffman, Caroline about 1872. Caroline (daughter of Huffman, John Walter Jr and Hoffman, Christina) was born on 28 May 1852 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; died on 01 Apr 1934 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried on 04 Apr 1934 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 29 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: Aug 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 18 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 23 Jun 1900, Richland, Venango Co., PA
• Census: 16 Apr 1910, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 02 Feb 1920, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 07 Apr 1930, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

Notes:

Died:
Apoplexy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Abt 1830
• Immigration: Apr 1834; From Belfast, Ireland to NYC
• Census: 23 Oct 1850, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 23 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: Jul 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Agent for sale of mowing machines
• Census: 25 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer

Notes:

From: Volume 2 of Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People, Embracing a General History of the County, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Charles Almanzo Babcock
Isaac R. Galloway, of Wesley (Mechanicsville), Irwin township, father of Mrs. Hiram C. Foster, was born Oct. u, 1844, in Mercer county, Pa., son of Thomas and Sarah (Ghost) Galloway. Thomas Galloway was seventeen years old when he came from Ireland to the United States, where three of his brothers, William, John and Isaac, were already settled, in Mercer and Venango counties. Pa. For fifteen years he was a farmer and merchant at Mechanicsville, Venango county, before and during the Civil war. having settled in this vicinity about 1851, on the farm now occupied by his son Isaac. After his sons left home he removed to the town and kept store, spending the remainder of his life there and dying at the age of seventy- eight years. Though he had but seventeen cents at the time of his arrival in this country Thomas Galloway became a very prosperous man. His first purchase of land consisted of two hundred acres in Mercer county, which by his industry was converted into a good farm. He sold it to remove to Irwin township, Venango county, where the water was better, and though considerable of his property here was new land he transformed it into a valuable farm. He became an influential resident of this locality, serving many years as a justice of the peace. Politically he was a Democrat, in religious connection a. member of the M. E. Church at Pleasant View, one mile north of his home, where he is buried. Mr. Galloway married Sarah Ghost, a sister of Philip Ghost, of the southern part of Irwin township, and she survived him, reaching a more advanced age. Mr. and Mrs. Galloway became the parents of three sons and one daughter, namely: Craft C. lived on what is now the Fred Hovis farm in Irwin township and died there when he was past sixty years of age; Isaac R. is mentioned below ; John, who obtained a farm adjoining the home place, is now living retired at Barkeyville; Ellen is the wife of Walter Eakins, of Grove City. Thomas Galloway gave a farm to each of his three sons, two receiving parts of the home place and the other a tract two miles distant, while the daughter was given one near Pearl, this county.
Isaac R. Galloway inherited all of his father's home place, now having one hundred acres just south of Mechanicsville, as he added to his original holding. It is highly improved and has substantial buildings, Mr. Galloway having erected the present house in 1890 and the barn in 1904, and there is a good vein of coal beneath which he has worked to some extent. He also owns a farm in the Bullion oil field, which yields him considerable royalty from its producing wells. For three or four years, during the oil excitement, Mr. Galloway kept a store at Parker, but farming has been his principal occupation. He has been a public-spirited citizen and has served as constable and in other township offices. In political principle he is a Prohibitionist. His religious connection is with the M. E. Church at Mechanicsville, in which he holds the position of class leader.
On March 14, 1870, Mr. Galloway was married to Mary Jane Bonner. daughter of Archibald Bonner and sister of Harvey Bonner, of Irwin township, and they have had three children, namely: Susann Cyrene is the wife of John Eakins, a lumber manufacturer, of Harrisville, Butler Co., Pa.; Sarah Ellen is the wife of Hiram Clinton Foster; John Alvin, who lives on the home farm, married Clara Adams and has three children, Eugene Isaac, Mildred Catherine and Forrest Allen.

From FindAGrave:
Nat: 7 Oct 1844. Wit: James McKean. Int: 7 Oct 1844. Emigrated from Belfast in Apr 1834 to New York City, age 17. He was a farmer and merchant at Mechanicsville (Wesley] by 1851 and served many years as Justice of the Peace. He was a member of Pleasantview Methodist Church. He lived at Mechanicsville, (Wesley) Venango County, Pennsylvania. Worked on the Erie Canal, and at a NY distiller, He was a farmer, and store merchant. He was also known as Gallaway
From 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, PA, and Representative Citizens by James A. McKee, Pages 1435-1436
JOHN FULTON GALLAWAY, a well known citizen and substantial business man of Hilliard, Butler County, Pennsylvania, is proprietor of the hotel at that village and has a well established business. He was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1849, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Ghost) Gallaway. and a grandson of AA'illiam Gallaway. Thomas Gallaway was born in Ireland and was one of the following children born to his parents: William; John; Thomas; Isaac, who married Eliza Kohlter, daughter of John Kohlter of Mercer County ; and Eliza, deceased. Thomas came to the United States at the age of seventeen years and landed at New York City with just seventy-five cents in liis pocliet. He received employment at blasting rock in the construction of the Erie Canal, then worked for a distiller in New York State.

He was an industrious man, and of a frugal and saving disposition, and while thus employed accumulated enough money to purchase a farm of 150 acres in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was a heavily timbered tract, but little of the land having been cleared. He cleared the farm and lived upon it for a time, then purchased the Ross tract of land, consisting of 300 acres, on which he engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale. He at the same time carried on a general store at Mechanicsville, in Venango County. He married there to Sarah Ghost, a daughter of Philip Ghost, of Venango County, and they reared the following children : Craft, who married Mary Ellen Atwell, a daughter of John Atwell of Mercer County, and has three children,-Thomas, Clyde and Elizabeth; Isaac, who married Mary Jane Bonner, a daughter of Archie Bonner of Venango County, by whom he has one son and two daughters,-John, Elizabeth and Susan; John F., whose name heads this sketch; Ann Elizabeth, deceased; Mary, deceased; Lytle, deceased; and Martha, deceased.

Thomas married Ghost, Sarah on 26 Nov 1840 in Jefferon Co., OH. Sarah (daughter of Ghost, Craft and Fritz, Elizabeth Catharine) was born on 23 Apr 1816 in Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; died on 05 Dec 1901 in Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Barkeyville, Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 23 Oct 1850, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA
• Census: 23 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: Jul 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 25 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 11 Jun 1900, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 1850, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 29 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: Aug 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 20 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

John married Hoffman, Christina on 13 Jan 1837. Christina (daughter of Hoffman, James and Ghost, Mary Ann) was born on 11 Apr 1822 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; died on 04 Jul 1905 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 1850, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 29 Aug 1860, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: Aug 1870, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 20 Jun 1880, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 14 Jun 1900, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

William married ( ), Mary Elizabeth. Mary was born in 1799 in PA; died in Cranberry Twp., Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Built mill on Scrubgrass creek
• Fact: Christy's School was built on his property; torn down in 1888
• Tombstone Photo: Clintonville, Venango Co., PA; Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
• Census: 1810, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 1820, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

Craft married Fritz, Elizabeth Catharine. Elizabeth (daughter of Fritz, Martin Luther and Wilt, Marie Catherin) was born on 04 Sep 1787 in PA; died on 23 Dec 1852 in Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Clintonville, Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Clintonville, Venango Co., PA; Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
• Census: 1840, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 1850, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 1840, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 1850, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer
• Census: 13 Aug 1860, Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; Farmer

Notes:

From: Volume 2 of Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People, Embracing a General History of the County, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Charles Almanzo Babcock page 994
John Hoffman, the father of Philip Ghost Hoffman, came very early from Westmoreland to Venango county, settling one mile west of what is now Clintonville. He chose a fine sightly spot for his home, where his grandson, Don Carlos Hoffman, now lives, and built the present residence during the Civil war. He died there in old age, soon after the war, and his wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Ghost, survived him several years. According to his plans the place passed to his son Philip Ghost Hoffman, father of Don Carlos. John and Catherine (Ghost) Hoffman had the following family: Walter, who died in Irwin township, where his sons William John and Barkey now live (his son Lowrie died at Ellwood City in the spring of 1918) ; Daniel, who also died in Irwin township, his surviving sons being Craft, John. Sheridan and Walter; Philip Ghost; Christiania. who married James Hoffman and died in Irwin township; Barbara, who married John Phipps. and died in Irwin township; Catherine, wife of Daniel Williams: Mary, wife of William Adams; Charlotte, wife' of John Hovis. of Clinton township; Elizabeth, who married Richard Surrena, and lived in Clinton township; and Sarah, who married Richard Richards, of Clinton township.

John married Ghost, Catherine Elizabeth in Sep 1807. Catherine (daughter of Ghost, Major Philip and Keltz, Barbara) was born on 05 Apr 1787 in Somerset Co., PA; died on 07 Mar 1874 in Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; Old Log Cemetery
• Census: 1840, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 1850, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
• Census: 13 Aug 1860, Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; Clintonville Cemetery

Notes:

From: Venango County PA, her pioneers and people, Page 804
Mr. (Perry Edward) Hoffman is a worthy member of one of the most respected families in Venango county, founded here during the latter part of the eighteenth century by his great-grandfather, James Hoffman. The latter's parents came to this country from their native land, Germany, and settled in Westmoreland county, PA. There James Hoffman was born in 1773 and lived until his removal to Venango county in 1797, settling on the tract in Clinton township later occupied by Andrew Hoffman. Being a wagonmaker by trade, he was able to make agricultural implements for the farmers of the vicinity, and himself engaged in farming, making the first improvements up on his home place. He married Mary Ghost, daughter of Maj. Philip Ghost, another early settler in Clinton township, who was of French ancestry (not true), the family first locating in Maryland after coming from France, and removing thence to Venango county. Mrs. Hoffman died in 1848, Mr. Hoffman about that year. Their children were: Barbara, Mary, John, James, Daniel, Adam, Philip G., Jacob, Elizabeth, Christina and Catherine.
James Hoffman, son of James and Mary (Ghost) Hoffman, was a carpenter by trade and also farmed successfully. He lived at Clintonville. By his marriage to Christina Monjar he had the following children: R. M., born Oct 15, 1835 in Clinton township; Dr. K. Ml, born Dec 15, 1836, in what was then Scrubgrass township; Coulter, father of Perry Edward Hoffman; Samuel; Philip; Caroline; Clementina; Mary, and Barbara.

James married Ghost, Mary Ann in 1798 in Venango Co., PA. Mary (daughter of Ghost, Major Philip and Keltz, Barbara) was born on 15 Apr 1780 in Somerset Co., PA; died on 02 May 1857 in Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Clintonville, Venango Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Clintonville, Venango Co., PA; Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery

Notes:

From: Venango County PA, her pioneers and people
Mr. Hoffman is a worthy member of one of the most respected families in Venango county, founded here during the latter part of the eighteenth century by his great-grandfather, James Hoffman. The latter's parents came to this country from their native land, Germany, and settled in Westmoreland county, PA. There James Hoffman was born in 1773 and lived until his removal to Venango county in 1797, settling on the tract in Clinton township later occupied by Andrew Hoffman. Being a wagonmaker by trade, he was able to make agricultural implements for the farmers of the vicinity, and himself engaged in farming, making the first improvements up on his home place. He married Mary Ghost, daughter of Maj. Philip Ghost, another early settler in Clinton township, who was of French ancestry (not true), the family first locating in Maryland after coming from France, and removing thence to Venango county. Mrs. Hoffman died in 1848, Mr. Hoffman about that year. Their children were: Barbara, Mary, John, James, Daniel, Adam, Philip G., Jacob, Elizabeth, Christina and Catherine.
James Hoffman, son of James and Mary (Ghost) Hoffman, was a carpenter by trade and also farmed successfully. He lived at Clintonville. By his marriage to Christina Monjar he had the following children: R. M., born Oct 15, 1835 in Clinton township; Dr. K. Ml, born Dec 15, 1836, in what was then Scrubgrass township; Coulter, father of Perry Edward Hoffman; Samuel; Philip; Caroline; Clementina; Mary, and Barbara.