BIO: Thompson M. Galbraith, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

460 	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  THOMPSON MOORE GALBRAITH (deceased), youngest son of Samuel 
Galbraith, was born November 10, 1813.  He left school at fifteen years 
of age and at once commenced work on his own account.  Like his father, 
his first ventures, even before reaching manhood, were on public works, 
being engaged at various times on the Erie Canal, Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad, Cumberland Valley Railroad (the heavy cut at Newville), the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Perrysville, Mifflin, Huntington and 
Greensburgh, and the North Pennsylvania Railroad.  He returned to the 
Cumberland Valley, and commenced farming at the old homestead in the 
spring of 1854, where he remained until the time of his death, December 
28, 1863.  A modest, gentle, generous, unassuming, able man, he made 
many friends, and had few, if any, enemies.  The soul of honor himself, 
his charity and generosity were at all times being exercised in behalf 
of his fellow-men.  He was married, October 10, 1848, to Elizabeth 
Woods, of Salem, Ohio, a daughter of Robert H. Woods, a Scotch-Irish 
Presbyterian, who came to America in 1818.  Four children survived him 
- William W., Emma W., Lois C. and Annie M., the eldest child, a son, 
dying in infancy.  Of these Emma W. died March 25, 1871, as she was 
verging on womanhood; Annie M. chose the study of medicine, and 
graduated with great credit at the Woman's Medical College of 
Philadelphia, taking a post-graduate course, lasting two years, under 
some of the most eminent specialists of Vienna and Munich; whilst Lois 
C. more modestly sought happiness in the beaten paths.