California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


C. J. GALLOWAY. � A hard-working, enterprising Kansan, of fine old 
Scotch ancestry, and brimful of good ideas and impulses, is C. J. Galloway, 
a rancher who is winning success with some fifty acres of highly improved 
land three miles northwest of Kingsburg. C. J. Galloway was born in Cowley 
County. Kans., fourteen miles from Arkansas City, on December 4, 1879, 
the son of Thomas Galloway, a native of Stone County, Mo., who married 
Barbara Meese, whose native place was Terre Haute, Ind., the ceremony 
taking place at a pretty country spot in Missouri. The Galloway family has 
military traditions, Thomas' father, Charles, who was an early settler at 
Springfield, Mo., having served in the Mexican War and been a major in 
the Union Army. He was living in Stone or Barry County, Mo., at the time 
of the Mexican War broke out, and after the Civil War, in which he served 
during the entire period, he bought about a thousand acres of land on the 
James River bottom, and when the Frisco line built through there, it located 
a station on his land which was called Galloway Station, and is so called to 
this day. 

C. J. Galloway grew up in Kansas until he was fourteen, and then went 
back to Galloway, Mo., and lived with Major Galloway. His schooling, there- 
fore, was obtained in Kansas and Missouri. Later he moved back to Kansas 
with his parents, to the old place. During his twenty-second year, his father 
sold his farm in Kansas and in 1903 all the family moved to Idaho and there 
engaged in grain farming. 

At Newkirk, Okla., on October 13, 1902, Mr. Galloway was married to 
Miss Laura Bishop, a daughter of George W. Bishop and an own sister of 
the Kingsburg postmaster. With his wife and the oldest child, who was born 
in Idaho, he lived in that state for three years; and then, in 1906, he came 
west to California. 

Fortunate in having his attention attracted to Kingsburg, Mr. Galloway 
bought at first twenty acres, and in another year bought another tract, this 
time of forty acres, which he improved and sold to advantage. Then he 
bought the first twenty acres of his present place, and in the fall of 1917 
thirty acres more. Now he is planting nine acres of Thompson seedless 
grapes, and the balance in alfalfa and seedless. The original twenty is en- 
tirely planted, and he has built a house and pumping plant on it, and made 
numerous other improvements. The result is that he has one of the most 
attractive ranches of its size in Central California. He is a member of the 
California Raisin Growers Association and of the California Peach Growers 
Association. 

Mr. and Mrs. Galloway are the parents of three children : Bessie, in the 
grammar school ; James ; and Raymond, six years old. Mr. and Mrs. Gallo- 
way are active in the Federated Methodist Episcopal Church at Kingsburg. 
Mr. Galloway is a member of the board of education, and was a prime 
mover in the plan to consolidate the Eschol and Kingsburg school districts, 
which involves bringing the school children from Eschol district each day 
to the grammar school at Kingsburg by automobile. This is being tried out 
on a three-year test, and if it continues in popular favor, it will probably 
be voted a permanent institution. Mr. Galloway was first appointed to fill 
a vacancy, and he was then elected for a term of three years, and is now 
serving his eighth year.