Orda B. Galloway is a native of Northeast Indiana, his people having been pioneers in Noble Count, and after a number of years of successful practice as a dentist in his native county he moved to Steuben County, and is now enjoying a large practice and well satisfied clientele at Angola.
He was born south of Ligonier, near Cromwell, November 25, 1878, son of Anderson and Harriet (Miller) Galloway. The Galloway family came originally to Northeast Indiana from Greene County, Ohio, and acquired extensive tracts of wild land in Noble County. Doctor Galloway's grandfather was Joseph Galloway. Anderson Galloway was reared and educated in Noble County, and for many years was one of the successful farmers of that locality. He and his sife now live retired at the Village of Cromwell. He was born March 12, 1840, and his wife July 5, 1845. He is on of the ardent republicans of Noble County, is a member of the Masonic Order and his wife is active in the Lutheran Church. They had a family of ten children: Groase, clara, Etta, Prentice, Cora, Serepta, Verna, Order B., Ora and Oakley. Prentice Cora, Serepta and Verna are deceased.
Orda B. Galloway grew up on his father's farm at Cromwell and lived there until he was about twenty-one years of age. His education began in the district schools, was continued in the high school at Cromwell, and for two and a half years he was a student in Hillsdale College in Michiga. He received his degree Doctor of Dental Surgery at the Dental College of Indianapolis in 1905. He at once returned to his home locality at Cromwell to begin his professional work, and had a good business there for ten years. In 1915 he moved to Pleasant Lake and in the fall of 1918 opened his office in Angola. Doctor Galloway is a republican and attends the Congregational Church at Angola. In 1915 he married Mrs. Frank Mayfield, of Noble County. Her one son by her former marriage, Jack Mayfield, is now thirteen years old.
Orda B. Galloway, History of Northeast Indiana, (c) 1884, Vol. 2, pg. 17-18.