Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-05-20
GOOD MAN DEAD
Bishop Galloway, a Noted Metho.
dist Divine,
GOES TO HIS REWARD

1P'''Vp"i SnurCh,
SOUTH and "a Leading Citizen .f
the State of Mississippi. q
biShop Charles b. Galloway. or
'he Methodist Episcopal church.
south died of pneumonia ~ b,s
nome at Jackson. Miss at fixe
clock Wednesday morning. The
'oiowing particulars OF the sickness
ana death OF this good man is com
'"iheu in an Associated Press dis
patch from Jackson. Miss. where tho
bishop lived for years:
Bishop Galloway. Mississinn,.s
most distinguished divine and best
known publicist. for the last twenty
years held rank among the GREATEST
public orators of America. His IN
ness. of several days duration was
a mid form of pneumonia, compli-
Gated with heart trouble.
The Bishop was taken i'll last Fri
day en- route from Nashville. WHARF
he had attended the annual session
OF the College of Bishops. No alarm
over his condition was felt until /.
Monday night. when pneumonia do
velopcd in one lung. The n,t,ant
-" worse rapidly, During the final
'"ciNe hours he was unconscious.
Inc funeral took place Thursday
afternoon from the First Metbodist
church' followed by interment at
greenwood Cemetery. Bishop War
rem a Gambler. of Atlanta. Ga. CON
quoted the services All departments
OF the Federal State. County and
municipal governments were cIosad
on Thursday and Major Crowder is
Sued proclamation asking that all
business houses close for the dav out
vi respect for The distinguished dead
hlshop Galloway was possibly the
most prominent of the Bishops OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. He was son of DIR. C.. y
Galloway, and was born at Kosciusco
Miss. September /. IS49. His bov.
nood days were spent there and at
Canton. In 1865 he entered the
University of Mississippi and was
graduated in 1868. In 1869 he Join
ed the Mississippi Conference.
lie was married September /.
1871, to Harriet Galloway, and to
them were born two sons and three
daughters. The degree of doctor
OF divinity was conferred on him
by the University of Mississippi and
the degree of doctor OF laws by the
Northwestern University and by
Tulane
Bishop Galloway's writings cover
ed "A wider range perhaps than those
OF any other person connected with
the church and he travelled extensive
ly. He was the author of The Life
OF Linus Parker "Methodsm. a
Child of Providence" "A Circuit of
Providence. "A Circuit of the
Globe. Modern Missions and Their
Value" and The American Com
monwealth."
He represented the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, at the
EcumeniCal Conference AZ Washing
ton. -. C.. and London. England, and
was a fraternal messenger to the
g. neral Conference of the Methodist
Church in Canada He visited Brazil
twice. Mexico twice and China and
Japan three times
bishop Galloway took leading
part in the affairs of his State and
was regarded as one OF its foremost
citizens He was a member of the
State board of trust and of the State
historical commission.
For "A number of years he took an
active interest in the prohibition
campaigns in Mississippi and other
Southern States He was president
of the board of education of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South;
president of the board of trustees
of Millsaps College and Vanderbilt
University and was n member of the
board OF trustees of the John f.
Slater fund