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John Coffee Galloway
1868 - 1934 (66 years)-
Name John Coffee Galloway Birth 15 Mar 1868 Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee 
Gender Male Death 4 May 1934 Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee Burial Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee Person ID I22844 Scudder Last Modified 29 Dec 2010
Father Judge Jacob Scudder Galloway, b. 14 Feb 1838, Mendham, New Jersey d. 23 Feb 1919 (Age 81 years) Mother Mary Eliza Tucker, b. 8 Jan 1842 d. 19 Nov 1878 (Age 36 years) Marriage 14 May 1867 Family ID F7949 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Cora Lee Burcheon, b. Abt 1887, Tennessee d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 9 Dec 1909 Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee Family ID F7951 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - John was educated mainly in a private school presided over by Yale graduates and he continued to study to the age of eighteen years, when he entered the employ of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as an office boy. He has been engaged in railroad work continuously since, covering a period of about thirty-five years and throughout the time has been connected with the Louisville & Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroads. He has always remained in Memphis and has been division passenger agent for the latter road since 1917. Prior to that date he was division passenger agent for the same road and previously was traveling passenger agent for several years. He is a member of the American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents. Perhaps no resident of Memphis is more widely known in railway circles in this city and none enjoys to a larger degree the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been thus associated.
Mr. Galloway was for forty years an Episcopalian but joined the Baptist church, of which his wife was a member. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, being a Knights Templar Mason and was one of the officials of Memphis Commandery, No. 4, K. T. He was formerly an Elk and also an Odd Fellow but is not identified with the last two organizations at the present time.
- John was educated mainly in a private school presided over by Yale graduates and he continued to study to the age of eighteen years, when he entered the employ of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as an office boy. He has been engaged in railroad work continuously since, covering a period of about thirty-five years and throughout the time has been connected with the Louisville & Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroads. He has always remained in Memphis and has been division passenger agent for the latter road since 1917. Prior to that date he was division passenger agent for the same road and previously was traveling passenger agent for several years. He is a member of the American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents. Perhaps no resident of Memphis is more widely known in railway circles in this city and none enjoys to a larger degree the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been thus associated.