History of Kosciusko, (Attala County) Mississippi United States of America

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Charles Betts Galloway, M.E. bishop, was born at Kosciusko, Miss., Sept. 1, 1849. He was graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1868 and entered the Mississippi conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in that year. He was a professor in Madison college, Miss., 1869-70, and was stationed as pastor at Black Hawk in 1870, Fort Gibson in 1871, Yazoo City, 1872-73, Jackson, 1874-77, Vicksburg, 1878-81, and at Jackson, Miss., again, in 1882. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 he was stationed at Vicksburg, where he nursed the sick, buried the dead, was stricken with the fever and reported dead, and his obituary was published. He was editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1882-86. He was ordained bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in 1886. He was president of the Prohibition executive committee of Mississippi; fraternal messenger to the General conference of the Methodist church of Canada in 1886 and to the Wesleyan conference of England in 1892; a delegate to the centennial conference in Baltimore, Md., in 1884, and to the Ecumenical Methodist conference at Washington, D.C., in 1891, and officially visited missions in Japan and China in 1894 and in Brazil in 1897. He was president of the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church, South; a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Slater fund, and president of the board of trustees of Millsops college, Jackson, Miss. He was married Sept. 1, 1869, to Harriet Willis of Vicksburg, Miss. He received the degree D.D. from the University of Mississippi in 1882 and that of LL.D. from Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill. He is the author of: Life of Bishop Linus Parker; Methodism, a Child of Providence (1877); Handbook of Prohibition (1886); Aaron's Rod in Public Morals (1888); Open Letters on Prohibition, controversy with Jefferson Davis (1888); A Circuit of the Globe; Modern Missions: Their Evidential Value, and Christianity and the American Commonweath.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Kosciusko, (Attala County) Mississippi

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