Galloway, Thomas

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]

1. Galloway, Craft Coast was born on 02 Mar 1842 in Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA; died on 17 Oct 1909 in Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA.
2. Galloway, Isaac Richardson was born on 11 Oct 1844 in Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA; died on 15 Jan 1925 in Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA; was buried in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA.
3. Galloway, Ann Elizabeth was born on 25 Dec 1847 in Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA; died in Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA.
4. Galloway, John Fulton was born on 08 Apr 1849 in Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA; died on 04 Nov 1917 in Barkeyville, Venango Co., PA; was buried on 06 Nov 1917 in Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA.
5. Galloway, Mary Eleanor was born on 11 Oct 1860 in Venango Co., PA; died on 6 Nov 1938 in Grove City, Pine Twp., Mercer Co., PA; was buried on 9 Nov 1938 in 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]