BIO: William W. 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:

  WILLIAM WATTS GALBRAITH was born September 30, 1851, in Dickinson 
Township, this county.  After receiving a common school education he 
went to the Pennsylvania State College, graduating in the scientific 
course.  In 1871 he commenced farming at the old homestead, but quit in 
1873 to go to West Point.  Graduating there in 1877, he was appointed 
second lieutenant in the Fifth Artillery, and served successively in 
Charleston, S. C., Atlanta, Ga., and Fort Schuyler, N. Y., until May, 
1882, when he was ordered to the artillery school, where he graduated 
in April, 1884, and was ordered to Governor's Island, N. Y.  In July of 
that year he was detailed professor of military science and tactics - 
serving also as professor of mathematics - at the Pennsylvania Military 
Academy, from which he was relieved, at his own request, July 1, 1885.  
Being again ordered to Governor's Island, he was detailed to go with 
his battery to Mount McGregor at the time of Gen. Grant's death, and 
served with the Guard of Honor from July 28 until the interment, August 
8.  Promoted to a first lieutenancy in the same regiment, and ordered 
to Fort Hamilton September 23, he served with the guard at Grant's tomb 
from December 15, 1885, to February 15, 1886.  Serving, August 26, 
1886, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., in command of Battery M, Fifth 
Artillery.