Greene-Brunswick County NcArchives Biographies.....Galloway, Walter December 13, 1850 - February 18, 1938
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Source: Physicians and Surgeons of America: A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson. Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1896.
Author: Irving A. Watson

GALLOWAY, Walter C., of Wilmington, . N.C., born December 13, 1850, at 
Southport, N.C., is the son of John Wesley and Sarah C. (Davis) Galloway, 
grandson of Louis Galloway. He received an academic education, and at the age 
of seventeen, at the earnest request of an elder brother, read Blackstone for 
one year; but this proving distasteful, he announced that as soon as he could 
earn the necessary means, he should carry out his original intention to study 
medicine. In the year 1870, at the age of nineteen, he commenced the study of 
medicine at Fair Bluff, N.C., under Dr. J.M. McGougan. Three months thereafter 
he was offered a lucrative position as telegraph operator and night train 
dispatcher in a distant town, and for a period of three years, mainly at 
night, he continued his preparatory medical studies with no one to help or 
guide; entered the Washington University School of Medicine, now College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., session of 1873-'74, and was 
graduated in the spring of 1875, with second distinction, and vice-president 
of the class; also took a post-graduate course at this institution about 1883, 
at the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York city, in 1891, and 
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1894, devoting his chief 
attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. For a few months 
after graduating in 1875, Dr. Galloway practised [sic] medicine at Burlington, 
N.C.; was then at Snow Hill, N.C., until 1891; removed to Winston, N.C., in 
1891, chiefly to educate his children, and remained there three years, in 
partnership with Dr. D.N. Dalton.

Early in the year 1894, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, the celebrated oculist and 
aurist, offered him the privileges of the Presbyterian Eye, Ear, and Throat 
Hospital, Baltimore, where, for the last month, he held the position of 
assistant on the staff, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, chief of staff, Drs. Frank 
Chisolm, Hiram Woods, Herbert Harlan, A.D. Mansfield, A.D. McConachie, C.F. 
Nolen, C.W. Hartwig, John R. Winslow, J.L. Romero, and W.E. Driver, 
assistants, from all of whom he received every courtesy and kindness.

Dr. Galloway settled at Wilmington, in June, 1894. He is a member of the 
Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, was its first vice- president 
in 1892, annual essayist in 1885, leader of debate in 1891, and a member of 
its various committees; was a member of the Greene County Medical Society 
until it was disorganized; superintendent of health, Greene county, 1878-'88; 
coroner for that county for a number of years. He was elected to the senate of 
North Carolina, from the counties of Greene and Lenoir, in 1890; was elected 
president of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school Conference, Greene county, 
1888- '89; for several years secretary of the Snow Hill Lodge, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and also filled the office of Noble Grand; was medical 
examiner for several life insurance companies; elected president Epworth 
League, Grace M.E. church, Wilmington, N.C., January 16, 1895.

Dr. Galloway edited the Snow Hill Advocate, 1882-'84, and has written largely 
for the state press. He is also the author of articles 
on "Dysentery," "Strangulated Hernia," "Hydrocele" and "Hemorrhage of the 
Nose," "Typhoid Fever, with Post Mortem," "Appendicitis," and a paper on the 
death of Dr. E. Burke Haywood, of Raleigh, N.C.

Married, September 28, 1876, Miss Katie V., daughter of William D. and Kate J. 
(Noel) Street, of Bedford county, Va. Their children are: Pearl, A. Erwin, May 
Louise, Walter Cleveland, Bonny Kate, and Sarah Galloway.

 



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