Charles Betts Galloway
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Charles Betts Galloway was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1886.
He was born 1 September 1849 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. His ancestor was Richard Galloway, who came from England in 1670 and settled in Lord Baltimore's province. From there the family branched into Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Bishop Galloway's great uncle was the Rev. Charles Betts of the North Carolina Conference of the M.E. Church.
Bishop Galloway's conversion to the Christian faith occurred in 1867 while he was a student at the University of Mississippi. He was admitted to the Mississippi Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, South in 1868.
[edit] References
- Leete, Frederick DeLand (1948) Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Parthenon Press.
- Duren, William Larkin (1932). Charles Betts Galloway: Orator, Preacher, and "Prince of Christian Chivalry". Atlanta, Banner Press (Emory University).
