Rev. James Galloway and Agnes Junkin

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Husband Rev. James Galloway ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 4 Aug 1786 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 5
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           Died: 21 May 1818 5
         Buried:  - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA

       Marriage: 12 Mar 1812 3

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Wife Agnes Junkin ^{2 3 4 6}

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            AKA: Ellen Junkin 7
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         Father: Joseph Junkin (1750-1831) 4 6 8 9 10 11
         Mother: Elinor Cochran (1760-1812) 12

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   Other Spouse: Hugh Bingham (      -1865) 1 4 7

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Children

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1 M John Mason Galloway ¹³

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           Born: 8 Jan 1813 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 13
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           Died: 4 Apr 1865 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 13
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James Galloway

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He was the earliest Associate Reformed minister settled in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
In 1786 his parents removed from Big Cove, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, to Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1805, entered for a legal course in Greensburg, but, upon the death of his legal preceptor, placed himself as a candidate for the ministry under the Monongahela Presbytery, and enjoyed the excellent training for four years of that distinguished theologian and pulpit orator, John M. Mason, D. D., in the Associate Reformed Seminary in New York City. He was licensed to preach, June 28th, 1810. He was eminently social in his qualities, of lively wit, of tender sensibilities; in the pulpit earnest, grave and edifying. His visit to the new settlements was most acceptable. December 17th, a call was made out for him by the three congregations of Mercer, Shenango and Mahoning. The Presbytery placed it in his hands February, 1811. An appointment was made for his ordination and installation for April 10th, in the Shenango settlement. There was as yet no church. The preaching had mostly been conducted in Peter Mitchell's house or barn, which was already crowded with people, many of the audience being from Mercer, fourteen miles north, and Mahoning, thirteen miles west. Thus was ordained the first of a long line of pastors in the Associate Reformed Church of that region, and placed officially by the Pres-bytery over their people in what now comprises territorially the two entire counties of Mercer and Lawrence.
Under Mr. Galloway's ministry, the lot donated by John Pearson was occupied by a small, log building, put up by the sturdy settlers in the spring of 1812, and first used for worship before it was yet floored. On this ground, in that year, the Lord's Supper was first dispensed. The corners of this log building were four large boulders, which could long be seen just north of the later church building. When the latter was erected the logs were removed to the northeast corner of the lot, and did humbler service for years as a schoolhouse, which at last fell in disuse and decay.
Mr. Galloway had hard service in so extensive a charge. He had to fill his appointments often by crossing the Neshannock, Shenango and other streams when they were swollen with rains; and not unfrequently did his horse swim the Shenango, while his master, seated in a canoe, held the bridle-reins. A deep-seated cold followed his preaching in wet clothes upon one occasion after such exposure. He never got well, though he continued his labors for months while gradually growing worse, till, in April, 1818, he resigned his charge. The 21st of May he died. His home had been in Mercer, and there he lies buried.

He and his wife had three sons, two of whom survived him, and one of whom, nineteen years later, succeeded him in the pastorate of Shenango.

1 Editor, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 89.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 960.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 268.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 409.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 416.

6 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 212.

7 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 8.

8 Editor, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 168.

9 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35.

10 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 959.

11 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 489.

12 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35, 168.

13 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 417.