Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Galt, Edward Pegram October 5 1847 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    EDWARD PEGRAM GALT, one of the leading druggists of Alabama, was born in
Norfolk, Va., October 5, 1847. His parents were Alexander and Mary (Raincock)
Galt, both of whom were born in Virginia, the former in Williamsburg and the
latter in Norfolk. They both were descended from early and distinguished
families of Virginia, the members of the Galt, Raincock and Pegram families
playing important parts in their state in both the business and professional
worlds. The Galt family is of Scotch origin, and the Raincock family of English.
The descendants of these two families are numerous throughout the country. The
father of E. P. Galt was a druggist, and was in business for many years at
Norfolk, Va. He died there of yellow fever, in 1853, at the age of sixty-three.
Our subject's parents were married in Virginia, and they became the parents of
three children, of whom, our subject is the only survivor. The father was
married twice, our subject being a son of the second wife. His first wife was a
Miss Jeffery, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. One of these sons,
Alexander Galt, became distinguished as a sculptor; but his promising career was
cut short at the early age of thirty-two, in the year 1863, his statue of
Jefferson, at the university of Virginia, being one of his masterpieces. He is
still remembered as a man of genius, and he left an enviable reputation. Another
son by the first marriage, William R. Galt, is a distinguished educator of
Virginia. Dr. James D. Galt, who died in 1888, was one of the most eminent
physicians in Norfolk. E. P. Galt was educated at Norfolk until the commencement
of the war, which turned the current of his life. He entered the Confederate
army at the age of seventeen, in 1864. He was in the Harris Home hospital at
Charlottesville, Va., as an apothecary, serving there until the close of the
war. After the close of the war, he resumed the drug business at Norfolk, Va.,
remained there until September, 1866, when he came to Selma, Ala., and clerked
in a drug store until 1878, when he established himself in business, in which he
has continued up to the present time with success. For five years he has been on
the state board of pharmacy of Alabama, and has been recently appointed for a
third term of three years. He has been secretary of the board all the time he
has been a member. He was married, in 1871, to Annie F. Riggs, daughter of Joel
Riggs, and brother of J. M. Riggs, of Montgomery, and first cousin of Dr.
Benjamin Riggs, of Selma, now deceased. To this marriage of our subject with
Miss Riggs there have been born three sons and three daughters. He is a member
of the Protestant Episcopal church, to which also his family belongs, and he has
been secretary of the vestry for the past fifteen years. In 1868, his mother
joined him at Selma, and made her home with him until her death in 1887, at the
age of seventy-one. Mr. Galt is one of the most highly respected of the citizens
of Selma.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 872-873
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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