FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: GALLOWAY, Samuel (published 1880)
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Historical Collections of Ohio
By Henry Howe LL.D.

SAMUEL GALLOWAY

Samuel Galloway was born of Scotch-Irish stock in 1811 at Gettysburg, 
Pa.,  and died at Columbus in 1872.  He graduated with distinguished
honor at Miami University in 1833;  was for a time a professor there and
at South Hanover,  Indiana;  later was admitted to the bar at
Chillicothe;  where he became a partner of Nathaniel Massie.  In 1843, 
being chosen secretary of State,  he removed to Columbus.  In the
session of 1854-5 he represented the Columbus district in Congress, 
being elected by the Republicans.  His speech there on the Kansas bill
was a theme for widespread eulogy,  alike in this country and in
Europe.  During the war he was judge advocate for the examination of the
prisoners at Camp Chase,  and was in constant private correspondence
with Mr. Lincoln,  who set a high value upon his advice and
statesmanlike qualities.  He was the trustee for several of the State
benevolent institutions and took a prominent part in the councils of the
Old-school Presbyterian church.  As a lawyer,  he had great power with a
jury,  and in wit and humor on the politic arena he had scarcely an
equal anywhere.  His reputation in this respect was late in life a
source of regret to him,  as the same was with Thomas Corwin.  Both
gentlemen found that the gathering crowds when they spoke came to be
amused rather than instructed,  which each in turn experienced was an
injury to his reputation for the possession of the solid qualities of
mind and character which along can bring respect and confidence.
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