Samuel H. Galloway has long been a citizen of prominence and usefulness in Sparta Township, where he is the present trustee and also a successful farmer, has been identified with school work as a practical school man and teacher, and altogether has filled his rather brief life with intense activities.
Mr. Galloway, whose home is on his farm in section 33 of Sparta Township, was born in the same locality September 20, 1886, a son of John F. and Eliza (Brown) Galloway, the former a native of Sparta Township and the latter of Kosciusko County, Indiana. His father was a farmer in Noble County for many years. He was twice married, his second wife being Ellen Burns. By the first marriage there were four children: Samuel H.; Rosa A., a graduate of the common schools and wife of Ernest Wilkinson; Sarah E., wife of Ray Prentiss; and Mary E., who is unmarried and lives at home.
Samuel H. Galloway grew up on his father’s farm, and was liberally educated. He is a graduate of the Cromwell High School, attended the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, and also was a student in Valparaiso University. His work as a school man has covered a period of about thirteen years. He owns a well kept and well managed farm of forty-three acres, and has about seventy acres in farming use. He is also a stockholder in the Sparta State Bank at Cromwell.
October 12, 1912, Mr. Galloway married Jennie Piper, daughter of Charles and Viola Piper. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cromwell and Mr. Galloway is also superintendent of the Sunday School of the Broadway Christian Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges at Cromwell and in politics is a republican.
Samuel H. Galloway, History of Northeast Indiana, © 1884, Vol. 2, Pg. 8.