History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions, Volume II, Part 25

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1440

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Doctor Winter was a son of Andrew and: Hannah (Baxter) Winter, his mother being a lineal descendant of the great reformer. The senior Andrew was a merchant and a man of means, dying about 1833 in Fayette- ville at the age of eighty odd years, being over seventy years of age at the time of the birth of his son Andrew. The senior Andrew was married twice, his second wife, Hannah Baxter, being younger than his son by the first mar- riage. The second marriage resulted in six children, four daughters and two sons, but all were deceased by 1860 except Doctor Winter.

Doctor Winter received his elementary education at Pendleton, South Carolina, his collegiate education at Erskine College in that state, and his medical education in the Charleston Medical College. He was a very stu- dious youth and when still a mere lad was being tutored by a French physi- cian in his home town. He was only twenty-one when he graduated from the medical college, the year 1841 finding him settled in the county seat of the northwestern county of South Carolina for the practice of his profession. About 1851 he removed to Columbia, South Carolina, where he practiced and at the same time became heavily interested with a partner in an iron foundry in the city.

Doctor Winter was as stanch .an Abolitionist as his father before him .. . He never owned any slaves, although on one occasion he bought some slaves and immediately gave them their freedom, having purchased them in order to keep a few Negro families from being separated. The fact that he hated slavery the way he did accounts for the fact that at midnight of the day that South Carolina seceded from the Union he left the state never to return. He went direct to Tennessee, intending to go to the North and volunteer in the Union army. When he reached Tennessee he found a Union regiment being recruited, the first in the state, and he at once enlisted in Company A, First Regiment. It should be said in passing that he would have been killed if he had dared to remain in South Carolina, and as it was, he had no sooner left the state, than the Confederates confiscated his iron foundry and were soon making rifles and other munitions of war in it.

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Doctor Winter was at first only a private in the ranks, serving as such for a few months. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, and, with a small group of soldiers, was shortly after captured while detailed to burn some bridges and placed in a Confederate prison. He soon escaped and rejoined the Union army at Mill Spring, Kentucky, in time to participate in the san- guinary engagement at that place. After the battle he was assisting with the wounded, still in the capacity of a private soldier, when one of the.,sur- geons said to him, "You must have had experience before in this profession." He then told the surgeon that he had practiced for more than twenty years, and within a few days he was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant. Two months later he was promoted and made surgeon of the Fourth East Tennessee Infantry, a position which he held until after the Union forces retreated from Cumberland Gap under General George Mor- gan. About this time his health began to fail, and he became so ill at Galli- polis, Ohio, that he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps. His health not improving he was forced to resign on August 28, 1864.

Immediately after leaving the army Doctor Winter went to Columbus, Ohio, where he intended to locate for the practice of his profession. In that city he met some men from Cedarville who persuaded him to locate in that town, assuring him that it offered a splendid opening for a good physician. He reached the town on October 4, 1864, and made that town his home the remainder of his days. Four years after coming to the town he was married to Nancy Turnbull, their marriage occurring in April, 1868. To this union were born three children : Elizabeth B., Isabelle and Andrew. Elizabeth mar- ried C. E. Nisbit, and lives in Loveland, Ohio, where her husband is a postal clerk and also interested in a seed and feed store. Isabelle is unmarried and is now teacher in the high school at Painesville, Ohio. The one son, Andrew, the third of the family to carry the name, is single. He lives with his widowed mother in Cedarville and operates his mother's farm of one hundred and fifty-seven acres near the town. Doctor Winter was a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church.

The wife of Doctor Winter was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Kyle) Turnbull, and was born in April, 1841, on her father's farm three miles from Cedarville. She attended the district school until she was four- teen years of age, when her parents moved to Cedarville, after which she at- tended the famous Grove school, a private institution. Her father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1806 and died in Cedarville township on May I, 1843. Her mother, a daughter of Samuel Kyle, was born on February 16, 1807,. on the old Kyle homestead, now owned by Silas Murdock, and died in Cedarville on February 8, 1885.

Thomas Turnbull, the father of the wife of Doctor Winter, was a son

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of William Turnbull, the latter a native of Scotland, who lived there until he was about forty years of age. He was a shepherd in his native country, following that occupation until he came to America about 1795 and settled near Nashville, Tennessee. He was not married until after he came to this country. He lived in Tennessee until 1810 and in that year came by wagon to Cedarville township and located on the Xenia-Columbus pike at the corner where the East Point school house is now located, about three miles south- west of Cedarville. William Turnbull built the large solid stone house at the forks of the road in 1821, the date being on the house. It is now owned by the Fowler family. William Turnbull and wife were the parents of nine children : Alexander, Thomas ( father of Mrs. Winter), Gilbert, John (mar- ried Margaret Kyle and settled in Cedarville township), James, David, Betsy (married Joseph Sterratt), Isabell (married John Chalmers). About 1833 William Turnbull and three of his sons-Alexander, Gilbert and David-went West and settled at Monmouth, Illinois, where their descendants are still living.

Thomas Turnbull, the father of Mrs. Winter, was four years of age when his parents came to Greene county from Tennessee. He grew up on the farm and after marriage bought a farm of two hundred acres in the township on the Federal pike. He died on the farm at the age of thirty-seven, May I, 1843, leaving his widow with four children: Catherine, who married Dr. Greer, both now being deceased; Isabell, who died unmarried in 1902: Mrs. Winter, the widow of Dr. Winter; Thomas H .. who died in infancy in 1843. After her husband's death Mrs. Turnbull moved into Cedarville where she lived until her death on February 8, 1885, having been a widow for forty- two years.

WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY, M. D.

Dr. William Albert Galloway, of Xenia, was born in that city and has lived there all his life, a member of one of the very oldest families in this county, the Galloways having been prominently represented here since the days of the very beginning of the Xenia settlement, or from the time that James Galloway; - Sr., a soldier of the Revolution and an Indian fighter, com- panion of Daniel Boone, came into the valley of the Little Miami with his family from Kentucky in 1797 and settled in the vicinity of the Indian village, or Chillicothe, now and for many years known as Oldtown, just north of the city of Xenia.

James Galloway, Sr., the pioneer, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Cumberland county on May 1, 1750, a son of George and Rebecca (Jun- kin) Galloway, natives of Scotland, who were among the influential members

GEORGE GALLOWAY 1784-1857

JAMES GALLOWAY 1750-1838

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WILLIAM LYON GALLOWAY 1895- C

JAMES COLLINS GALLOWAY 1817-1899

WILLIAM A. GALLOWAY, M. D. 1860

Five Generations of the Galloway Family in Greene County, Ohio

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of the Scottish community in that section of the then colony of Pennsylvania and comprised within the bounds of Cumberland county. George Galloway was one of a family of seven brothers, the others having been Samuel, John, William, James, Peter and Thomas, who made a settlement in the vicinity of what came to be known as the spring of the great Indian chief, Logan, in what is now Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. There George Galloway spent his last days, his death occurring on August 3, 1783. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters, William, Joseph, John, Samuel, James, Jane, Margaret, Martha and Sarah. Of this number James Galloway, the Greene county pioneer, came to this section of the then Territory of Ohio in 1797, as noted above and as set out at lengthı elsewhere. in this work, and here established his home, settling on the west bank of the Little Miami, in the Oldtown vicinity, about five miles north of where Xenia later came to be established. About 1776, after his service in the Revolution, he removed from Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, to Lexington, Kentucky, remaining a citizen of that territory till 1797. It was during this period that he took part in the expeditions of Kentucky troops against the Shawnee Indians at Old Chillicothe, in 1782 and 1784, and determined, whenever peace was declared with them, to found the family home near Old Chillicothe. When Greene county was organized in 1803 he was elected first treasurer of the county, an office he filled for more than fifteen years. It has been written of him that "he was a man of deep religious convictions, and those convictions he carried out in life by doing acts of kindness to his neighbors and in working for the good of humanity. To him is the psalm-singing portion of the community under obligation for his untiring efforts in bringing first to the county the Rev. Robert Armstrong [see history of United Presbyterian churches in Greene county] and other preachers of that faith, and making his home theirs. Dur- ing his long and useful life he was ever ready to help those deserving of help. Jamcs Galloway died on August 6, 1838, at the ripe old age of eighty-eight ycars, and was buried in the Massiescreek burying ground. He was twice married and by his first wife, Rebecca Junkin, who was of the family from which his mother also came, was the father of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, George, James, Joseph, William, Samuel, Andrew, Anthony, John, Rebecca and Ann. Rebecca Junkin Galloway was born in Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1759, was married to James Galloway on November 23, 1778, died in Greene county on August 31, 1812, and was buried in the Massiescreek burying ground. On April 13, 1817, James Gallo- way married, secondly, Tamar Wilson, of this county, who died without issue. Rebecca Galloway, elder of the two daughters born to James and Rebecca (Junkin) Galloway, was born in the old block house in the vicinity

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of Lexington, Kentucky, October 7, 1791, and was about six years of age when she came into the valley of the Little Miami with her parents in 1797. Here she,grew to womanhood and married her cousin, George Galloway, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1784, son of Joseph Galloway, brother of James Galloway and the father of eleven children, namely : George, John, William, Jane, Isabel, Joseph, James, Sophia, Ann Eliza, Agnes and Elizabeth. George Galloway and his wife ,established their home in Xenia township, five miles east of Xenia. His death occurred there on January 29, 1857, and hers, February 25, 1876. They were the parents of six children, James Collins, Madison, William, Ann, Martha and Eleanor.

James Collins Galloway, eldest of the six children born to George and Rebecca (Galloway) Galloway, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Xenia, June 30, 1817, and was there reared to manhood. From the days of his boyhood he gave particular attention to his studies and in after life became one of the strongest factors in the work of elevating the educational stand- ards of this region, his efforts having done much toward promoting the work of organizing a common-school system hereabout. Reared a Seceder, he was a man of pronounced religious convictions, an earnest and active Abolitionist, and organized the first Sabbath school for freedmen in this county. Reared a Whig, he became a member of the Republican party upon the organization of the same and ever afterward was an ardent adherent of the principles of that party. On November 18, 1841, James Collins Galloway was united in marriage to Mary Ann Kendall, who also was born in Xenia township, May 12, 1822, daughter of William and Eleanor (Jackson) Ken- dall, the latter of whom was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, pioneers of Greene county, and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, together with a quite comprehensive genealogical statement relative to the Jackson family in this county. Will- iam Kendall was born at Stony Creek, Kentucky, in 1795, son of Robert and Nancy (Wilson) Kendall, Pennsylvanians, the former born in 1752 and the latter, in 1770, who had settled in Kentucky. Robert Kendall died on Octo- ber 12, 1843, and his widow survived him for nearly ten years, her death occurring on February 18, 1852. They were the parents of ten children, William, John, James, Francis, Milton, Newton, Martha, Ann, Isabel and Nancy, and descendants of this family, as well as those of the Galloways, the Jacksons, the Wilsons and the Junkinses form a numerous connection throughout this section of Ohio in the present generation. William Kendall was a tanner by trade and upon establishing his home in this county, he having at one time been the owner of the tract now covered by Wilberforce University, carried on quite an extensive tannery business in addition to his

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farming. His wife, Eleanor Jackson, was born in what is now Jefferson county, this state, March 15, 1800, and died at her home in the Xenia neighborhood on June 6, 1888. He had preceded her to the grave some years, his death having occurred on August 6, 1879. They were the parents of six children, the Rev. Clark Kendall, Robert, Henry, Mary Ann, Eliza and Caroline. - James Collins Galloway died at his home in Xenia on Novem- ber 28, 1899. His wife's death occurred on September 10, 1892.

To James Collins and Mary Ann (Kendall) Galloway were born four children, of whom Doctor Galloway, the immediate subject of this biographi- cal review, was the last-born, the others having been: Clark Madison, born on April 20, 1843; Alethia Ellen, March 27, 1846, and Rebecca Alice, Decem- ber 28, 1851. The late Dr. Clark Madison Galloway, a veteran of the Civil War and for years one of the leading physicians and men of affairs in Xenia, who died at his home in that city in 1913, was but eighteen years of age when the Civil War broke out. In the spring of 1864 he enlisted for the hundred-days service as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and upon the completion of that service re-enlisted and returned to the front as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Eighty-first Ohio, with which he served until the close of the war and while thus serving was present when Johnston sur- rendered to General Sherman at Raleigh. Upon his return home he com- pleted his local schooling in the old Xenia College and in 1869 entered Miami University, from which he was graduated in 1871. For four years there- after he was engaged as professor of Greek, Latin and mathematics at Xenia College and in 1875 entered the Medical College of Ohio, having meanwhile given his serious attention to the study of medicine and surgery, and was graduated from that institution in 1877, immediately afterward opening an office for the practice of his profession at Xenia and was thus engaged in that city the rest of his life, from the year 1890 having as an associate in his practice his younger brother, Dr. W. A. Galloway. For eight years the elder 'Doctor Galloway was coroner of Greene county, for more than twenty years a member of the local board of pension examiners, for twelve years a member of the city board of education, for three years physician and surgeon to the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, for two years a member of the local board of health, for two years a member of the city council and for two years, 1891-92, was medical director of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, an active member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Republic, and of Nathaniel Greene Chapter, Sons of the Revolution. By religious persuasion he was a Presby- terian; politically, was a Republican and, fraternally, was a member of the Masonic order as well as an active and influential affiliant of the Greene

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County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. Alethia Ellen Galloway was graduated from Xenia College in 1864 and in that same year was married to William J. Parrett, of Lyndon, this state. Her two children, Carrie Dell and Clark Sherman, were graduated from Wooster University. Rebecca Alice Galloway, who on February 6, 1896, was mar- ried to Henry Harrison Eavey, of Xenia, was graduated from Xenia College in 1873, later attended Antioch College and until her niarriage was engaged as a teacher in the Xenia schools. She is a past regent of Catherine Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and past Ohio state federation secretary of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Reared at Xenia, the city of his birth, William Albert Galloway supple- mented the schooling received at Oldtown Run district school by attendance at Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then entered the Medical College of Ohio, and in March, 1890, was graduated from that institution, immediately there- after becoming associated with his brother, Dr. C. M. Galloway, in the practice of his profession at Xenia, and continuing thus associated until the death of his brother in 1913, since which time he has carried on his practice alone. For years Dr. W. A. Galloway has taken an active interest in the general affairs of his home community and when the draft board was created in this county in the spring of 1917 in connection with this nation's war activi- ties he was appointed one of the three members of the board and made head of the medical section of the same. He also was appointed chairman of the military supplies department of the Greene county chapter of the American Red Cross. It is a matter of considerable local pride to know that the organi- zation of Red Cross activities in this county has been pronounced to be the most effective of any county organization in the state as based upon compara- tive results accomplished. Doctor Galloway has for years been one of the most active and influential friends of Wilberforce University and as presi- dent of the board of trustees of the Combined Normal and Industrial Depart- ment of that institution since 1896 has rendered a service to the university that will ever remain a monument to his skill as an organizer and director, an appreciation of his services in that connection having been the naming of Galloway Hall, the largest building on the campus, in his honor. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and is a frequent contributor to medical journals.

On April 2, 1891, at Newark, this state, Dr. W. A. Galloway was united in marriage to Maude Evelyn Lyon, only daughter of the Hon. William C. and Evelyn (Spitzer) Lyon, the former of whom was lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1888 to 1890, and to this union three children have been born,

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namely : Evelyn Helen, born on February 8, 1893; William Lyon, March 29, 1895, and Elizabeth Mary, May 21, 1902; all of whom are members of the Presbyterian church. Doctor Galloway is a Mason and a member of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the, Revolution, long corresponding secre- tary of the local chapter of the latter organization. In 1910 he made an extended tour of Europe, during which he attended the performance of the Passion Play at Oberamergau. In 1908 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by Antioch College, and the same year the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred by Wilberforce University, both degrees in recog- nition of educational services. In 1913 on the death of his brother, Dr. C M. Galloway, he succeeded the latter as member of the Greene county board of United States examining surgeons.

JOSEPH P. ELTON.

Joseph P. Elton, superintendent of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home at Xenia, was born in the vicinity of Hillsboro, county seat of Highland county, Ohio, January 17, 1864, son of George S. and Mary M. (Patton) Elton, the latter of whom, a native of that same county. is still living, now a resident of New Vienna, in the neighboring county of Clinton.

George S. Elton was born in the state of New Jersey and was but eight years of age when he came to Ohio with his parents, the family settling in the neighborhood of Hillsboro, in Highland county. There he grew to man- hood and after his marriage established his home there. He was a black- smith and continued engaged in that business until his retirement. His death occurred there in 1913, he then being past eighty-two years of age. His widow, now a resident of New Vienna, is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, as was her husband. George S. Elton and wife were the parents of ten children, five of whom are now deceased, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Charles Elton, who is engaged in the hotel business at New Vienna, and three sisters, Sallie, wife of Charles Ridgeway, of Hillsboro; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Saunders, a farmer of Highland county, and Addie, who is living with her mother at New Vienna.

Joseph P. Elton received a common-school education and was early trained, under the direction of his father, to the trade of blacksmith. In 1897 he was appointed deputy probate clerk of Highland county, under Judge O. H. Hughes, and served in that capacity until his election three years later to the office of sheriff of that county, where he served two terms. In 1904 he be- came engaged in the hardware business at Hillsboro and was thus engaged for eighteen months, at the end of which time he turned his attention to the steam- laundry business and was thus engaged until his election to the office of mayor

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of Hillsboro, which office he held for something more than a year, or until his appointment, in May, 1909, to the important position of superintendent of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia. Superintendent Elston occupied that position until July, 1916, when his successor was appointed, but a year later, in July, 1917, he was recalled to the post and is again serving as superintendent. Superintendent Elton is a Democrat and has served as a member of the Democratic state central committee.

On December 28, 1899, Joseph P. Elton was united in marriage to Margaret McLaren, who also was born in Highland county, daughter of Thomas and Margaret McLaren, both of whom are still living.

ROY C. HAYWARD.

Roy C. Hayward, auditor for the city of Xenia, a former member of the common council of that city and formerly and for years actively engaged in business there, was born in the neighboring county of Clark and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the city of Springfield on October 27, 1881, son of Charles R. and Cora (Coffin) Hayward, both of whom were born in that same county, and he was reared in the household of his maternal grandfather, Elijah G. Coffin, for- merly warden of the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus. Charles R. Hay- ward and wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Swayne G. Hayward, born on March 23, 1883, who mar- ried Bessie Cohan and is now living at Springfield, where he is connected with the local agency of R. G. Dun & Company at that point.

Reared at Springfield and at Columbus, Roy C. Hayward completed his common-school education in the high school in the latter city and then took a course in a business college at Columbus. He afterward returned to Springfield and not long after became engaged as a motorman on the Spring- field & Dayton Traction Railway, continuing thus engaged for four years, at the end of which time he became employed as a clerk in the Frazer shoe store at Xenia. Mr. Hayward remained in the shoe store for more than eight years. He then, in partnership with C. F. Taylor, bought the Wilkins & Snyder cigar store, continuing his interest in that concern until December 18, 1917, when he sold out in order to prepare to give his undivided attention to the duties of the office of auditor of the city of Xenia, he having been ap- pointed to that office at the first meeting held by the city commission under the provisions of the new charter granting to the people of Xenia a commis- sion form of government. Mr. Hayward entered upon the duties of this office on January 1, 1918, and is now thus occupied. He is a Republican and in 1913 was appointed a member of the common council of the city to fill a

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History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions, Volume II, Part 25

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp Publication date: 1918 Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen Number of Pages: 1440

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1440