Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-01
Cou.THomasHC GALLOWAY.

Thls gentleman, q cluzen OF cleveland,
Bradley county, who died a few days
since at White Cliff Springs, in Monroe
county, after lingering and deceptive
illness, aged fifty-eight years, was one of
the first men in Tennessee. So far as we
are advised, he never sought nor held
Federal, State nor County office; yet there
was, politically, no more potent man in his
section of the State, when he felt called
upon to exercise his influence in political
contests. BE was g native of Knox
county, but his father removed, when the
son was quite young, to Monroe county.
About the time of the survey of the
Ocoee lands in, 1887 or 1883, he became
connected with that survey, and moved
to Cleveland, which continued to be his
home until his death. Col. Galloway was
pre-eminently self-made man. He took
prominent part in the early develop
ment of the mineral wealth of East, Ten
nessee and in the building of her
railroad system. During the life
of Col. James A Whiteside, Col
Galloway was his able assistant in every
thing which tended TO promote the ad-
vancement of the material interests of
East Ter nessee. Upon the death of Col.
Whiteside, Col. Galloway Immediately
succeeded to the high position which the
former had held in the estimation of the
people of East Tennessee as the leader in
internal improvements in that division of
the State. He was elected President of
the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
in 1852, but after holding that position for
about eighteen months he resigned in or
der to look after the mineral development
of the counties adjoining him, which then
began to attract the attention of the sur
rounding States, and soon, through the
instrumentality of Col. Galloway, to
draw capital and capitalists from New
York and London to dig up the copper
ore of Polk county to be transported to
the smelling furnaces of the North and of
Europe. He soon became the very head
and front of the copper interest of the
State. ...
During the war he was a Union man,
and yet so liberal in sentiment AMI action
as to have been the chief benef&ctor of
those of his opponents whose necessities
required substantial assistance. There
was not a Confederate who knew him
that would not have called upon him for
aid as soon as he would one of our politi-
cal faith. Union citizens of East Tennessee,
who were imprisoned in the South, are
more indebted TO his exertions, perhaps
unknown to them, than to all others for
their release. GID
Soon after the close of the war the
railroads of East Tennessee, like all in the
South, were believed to be bankrupt.
| Col. Galloway was again called to the Pres
| idcncy of the East Tennessee and Georgia
Road. In 1868 he was elected Presi-
dent of the East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad, and upon the consolidation OF
these two roads he was elected President,
and continued to occupy that position
until his death. His wonderful success
in the management of those roads is the
highest encomium which can be paid to
his great native energy and to his execu-
tive and administrative ability.
The resources of Tennessee are greatly
indebted to him for very much of their
development. In completing and perfect
ing the railroad system of East Tennessee,
and in enlisting foreign and domestic
capital in opening up our rich and mex
haustible beds Of copper, iron and coal,
20 the markets of the world, he has earned
the thanks of the people of the State.
His loss will be deeply felt at home by
all classes, and abroad by men of capital
and enterprise, who have been accus-
toned to lean with assurance of success
,1non his safe counsels.