Galloway, Hiram I.

GALLOWAY, HERSCHIE, GURIUS, KEITH, WENDELL

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 2/14/2003 at 20:52:02

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

HIRAM I. GALLOWAY

This well-known and energetic young farmer, residing on section three, Berlin township, was born there on the 17th of June, 1868, and has spent almost his entire life upon the farm where he now lives. His parents were Hiram I. and Antonia M. (Herschie) Galloway. The father, who was a native of Ohio, came to Iowa at an early day and settled in Clinton county, purchasing a farm on section four of Berlin township. This was a tract of one hundred and sixty acres, entirely unimproved when it came into his possession, but he soon placed it under cultivation and erected good and substantial buildings thereon. Here he resided until 1871. In politics he was a stanch Republican, and at the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in he Twenty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until hostilities ceased, and was then honorably discharged. The mother of our subject now resides with him on her farm of four hundred acres, and although seventy-four years of age she is still hale and hearty. She was born in Germany and when young came to the United States with her parents, who made their home in Berlin township, this county, until death. They were well-to-do and prosperous farming people.

The subject of this sketch is the youngest in a family of six children, the others being as follows: (1) Joseph died at an early age. (2) John, a farmer of Brookfield township, this county, married Dora Gurius, and they have one child, Florence. (3) Daniel, who is engaged in farming on the homestead, married Mary Keith, daughter of Joseph Keith, of Berlin township, and they have two children, Grace and Anna Belle. (4) Matilda A. lives with our subject on the home farm. (5) Antonia is the wife of D. S. Wendell, a farmer of Brookfield township, and they have four children, Techla, George, Ethel and Arthur.

Hiram I. Galloway was reared in much the usual manner of farmer boys, his time being passed in attending the local schools and assisting in the work of the fields. He is now successfully engaged in the operation of a farm of two hundred and forty acres, and also devotes considerable attention to the raising, feeding and shipping of stock. He is a wide-awake, up-to-date and reliable business man, and is meeting with well-deserved success. Politically he is a supporter of the Republican party and its principles, and religiously is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Elwood.