Résumé

Partner, Howard and Galloway, Architects and Engineers, San Francisco, CA, 1906-1909.

Relocation

Galloway was born in San Jose, CA, on 10/13/1869. In 1870, John lived with his parents and two siblings in San Jose, CA. His father worked as a miner and had accumulated $4,000 worth of assets according to the US Census. Immediate neighbors at this time were primarily farmers owning land and assets ranging from $200 to $21,600. (The family owning $200 worth of goods was a group of six Chinese immigrants, the Ah Family, that cultivated strawberries, but was unlikely able to own its own property.) (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1870; Census Place: San Jose, Santa Clara, California; Roll: M593_88; Page: 179B, accessed 06/05/2024.)

By 1877, James may have resided in Sacramento, CA, as his mother died there of lung disease, perhaps in a sanitorium. (See Ancestry.com., Source Citation California State Library Mortuary Records (Northern California), 1849-1900; Sacramento, California; Microfilm Reel #: 5, accessed 06/05/2024.)

Three years after Emily Galloway's death, James Galloway resided in the Virginia City, NV. James Debo was not listed in the 1880 US Census record, but his two siblings were. Many neighboring men worked as miners in the silver mines or as laborers in town. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: Virginia City, Storey, Nevada; Roll: 759; Page: 226b; Enumeration District: 048, accessed 06/05/2024.)

He registered to vote in Oakland, CA, on 09/15/1894, residing at 1439 Myrtle Street, in what became the city's Oak Center neighborhood. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 4; FHL Roll Number: 976449, accessed 06/05/2024.)

As per 1908 Alameda County voter rolls, Galloway resided at 1426 Myrtle Street in Oakland, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1908, accessed 05/22/2024.)

In 1910, he resided at 1500 Euclid Avenue with his wife, Nettie, two daughters--Bertha and Alice--brother Mason , father-in-law George R. Barnes (born c. 1824 in NY) and sister-in-law, Ella E. Barnes (born c. 1858 in NY). Additionally, the Galloways employed a household worker, Bertie Birkeland (born c. 1885 in Norway). The US Census indicated that Birkeland had immigrated to the US in 1905. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: T624_72; Page: 11a; Enumeration District: 0040; FHL microfilm: 1374085, accessed 05/22/2024.)

Galloway traveled to Europe between 07/1913 and 11/1913.

During World War I, he served as a Major in the US Army Corps of Engineers, possibly as a reservist. (His affiliation was "US R Eng" on the troop manifest). He traveled aboard the US Army Transport Service (formerly the Anchor Line) steamship, SS Tuscania, from New York, NY, bound for Europe on 12/08/1917. The Tuscania was sunk by German U-boat UB-77 on another troop transport voyage during the evening of 02/05/1918 off the coast of Ireland. Of the approximately 2,397 aboard, about 230 American and British soldiers and crew perished, the large majority saved by the accompanying flotilla and Irish fishing boats.

The engineer died in Alameda County, CA at the age of 73 on 03/10/1943.

Parents

His mother was Emily "Emma" Myers Hoover (born 11/19/1839 in Clearfield County, PA-d. 11/24/1877 in Sacramento, CA). Emily worked in the home, after marrying James Galloway on 12/23/1861 in Jackson County, IA.

James Galloway, James Debo's father, worked as a miner in Alviso, near San Jose, CA, in 1870, and resided in the Comstock Lode boomtown of Virginia City, NV, in 1880. He worked as a lumberyard salesman at that time in the Comstock Lode boomtown. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: Virginia City, Storey, Nevada; Roll: 759; Page: 226b; Enumeration District: 048, accessed 06/05/2024.)

Emily raised three children, but passed away young at the age of 38 due to tuberculosis.

John's siblings included Mason Galloway (born 03/02/1863 in CA-d. 06/01/1944 in Santa Clara County, CA), Alice M. Galloway (born c. 1865 in CA).

Spouse

Galloway wed Nettie Mabel Barnes 01/01/1870 in CA-d. 06/14/1941 in Alameda County, CA) in 1894 in Oakland, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Source number: 52.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RLH, accessed 05/22/2024 and Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022, accessed 06/05/2024)

Children

He and Nettie had two daughters, Bertha M. Galloway (born ) and Alice C. Galloway (born

Biographical Notes

Voter records from 1894 indicated that Galloway had a scar on the inside of this left hand. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 4; FHL Roll Number: 976449, accessed 06/05/2024.)

John D. Galloway joined the Bohemian Club on 11/28/1906. (SeeThe Bohemian Club San Francisco, Certificate of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and Rules, Officers, Committees, and Members, [San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1907], p. 95.)

Galloway applied for a US passport on 06/25/1913, while living in Berkeley, CA. On 07/10/1913, the engineer was to take the Allen Line Steamship Corsican from Montreal, QC, overseas. The passport application described him, at age 43, as standing 5-feet, 8-and-1/2-inches tall. He was Caucasian with a "clear, brown" complexion, and had a "broad, high" forehead, "straight, medium" nose, "square" chin, "medium" mouth, and "round" face. He had brown eyes and "very dark brown" hair and a moustache. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 191; Volume #: Roll 0191 - Certificates: 11587-12400, 28 Jun 1913-09 Jul 1913, accessed 05/22/2024.)

He returned to the US aboard the famous White Star line RMS Olympic from Cherbourg, France, to New York, NY, between 11/05/1913 and 11/12/1913, (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, accessed 05/22/2024.)