University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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1 1 .4 l ' t, r r' X 1- Na' I, ,. ll. l ,ip ,e r-H13 , -QA--l lw LY, . Charles Betts Galloway. Charlcs Betts Galloway was horn in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Sm-pteinlu-r 1, Ili!-94 pl. died at Jackson, Mississippi, on May 12, 1900. His father, Dr. Fharles Betts Galloway, was a physician in the town ot' Kosviusko until the siilvjvvt of this sketch was fourteen years old. He thru niovcd to Canton, Mississippi. where the rviuain, der of the son's youth was spent, save for the collegiate sessions at the University. Thu- early cdiivatioii of llishop Galloway was rereived in the private schools in liowipshn :ual in lla- muh- aeadeiny at Canton. He entered the L'nivi-rsity of Mis- sissippi ahout .lammry l, lhllti, and graduated in tlne olass of 1568, perhaps the most distinguished class in the history of thc University, Tliough he was not ye! nina-teen years of age when he graduated, hc made an ahidiug inipressiotl upon his fm-lloxv-students hy his unusual personal qualities and intellectual gifts. His hril- liunt career was fun-slnulowed then, and his instructors were convinced 0f the large usefulness uhich his life promised, Upon his graduation the late Justice Lamar rongrutulati-d him upon his dn-vision to outer the ministry, and pleasantly ubsurvcd that he had thus given others n rlnnuw' for thi' rnrncr in statesmanship whivh his hrilliant gifts would have guaranteed. The Rev. C. W. Grafton, tlrst honor man of 'IDL has given this estimate of tlu' college Student: '1ilu' hm-nl ot' his whole future life was set forth in his constant, unremitting devotion to daily duties. his conscientious fulfillment of every obligation, his uni- formly courteous lu'havior, his upright walk and conversation all through his college course. llc was always captivating and winsome. I do not remember ew-r seeing him make a failure in class room, and he never shirked any duty. In those early days a gn-at nh-.il of attention was hestowcd on devlumation and debate. and other literary ewrviscs, and in all these lines of work lu- was conspivuously at the front. He always displayed the rare quality of good common sense, and knew how to use his opportunities. More than anyone- I i-vi-r knew. he was able at all times to use his stores nf information. In spvaking of his university life. liishop Galloway was fond of saying that he entered the contest for every prim nilered and that lu- was not successful 0llt'C. 6 ltemarkalvlc as this fart may he, in the light of his suhscqnent fnme as an orutor, we find the statement of interest not in llu- explicit fact. but in the deeply sig- niiivnnt., the iiiulrsignvd implication: he met every opportunity with his utinost energy. We slmuhl go far in the invesitgation of his University career to find a truer key to the large success that his life allainrd. Wherever work wus to be dont- in church or state, wherever truth or right or the well-living of his fellow- men called for a chrnnpion, wherever difficulties mid hard opposition perplexed those who gave :illegiaiive to such priuciph-S, his voiri- vould he heard and his wise counsel gave assurance. Ht- added to saintly consecration and the wisdom of a statesman, the onlin-ing energy and courageous optimism of a great wurrior. Bishop Galloway i-nlcred upon his active work as a minister in the fall of 1868, joining the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He Served sua-vessiu-I5 a nulnher of important pastorates, invlulling Port Gibson, Yazoo City. Jackson and Yieksburg. On his twentieth birthday. Sept. 1, 1869, he had been mnrriud to Miss Hattie L. Willis. lt does not trnnsceiul propriety in matters so personal to say that those who were happy enough to know the home of Bishop Galloway have knowledge of an ini-stimahle iufiuenre that wrought so quietly and richly ln his life. lu 1882 he wus vhosen for the editorship of Thr Nm- Orlmimi llhrintian Adon- mts, From this position he was elected to the 1-pisvopacy in 18146, when he was yet only thirty-sis yours of nge, the youngest man ever chosen to he a bishop in thc Southern Methodist Church. As u member of that church this writer ventures to express the opinion that Mississippi ami the Vniversity gave to the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, in the person of Charles Betts Galloway, the greatest bishop of its history. He was eminent and powerful as nn orator, great as an administrator. and unupproavlicd in his greatness as a lender and statesman. ln all the luflie inte-ri-sts of the church his wisdom ami efficient labor made him pre- eminent. ln missionary enterprises his work was hardly less than epoch-making for evangelical t'hristianity. ln this work. at one time or another, he had charge . iv.. L X in , , . -' , +!l if . if ,, ,EMF ,X wif fi age ts , N Q5 wil 1 :Q i A. ,V I' 1 Qiaff s ,leg 'Q 3 ,A 'ft lv .ix .A K., ' JK c. i i

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Q sy V i 1 w m?w9'r.a'Fm 5:NN:I.i:EgA,,, A Egnygfh N . . .jr , of his church's fields in the .Orient-China, Japan, Koreag and of those in South An enumeration of the particular services wrought by this great man would till j4 5. America and Mexico. a volume. Yet such an extensive statement would but poorly indicate the value of '57-Q, But it was in educational work that he eidiibited his constructive ability and wise his life. It Wil given to him to he a source of power in the social, political and bf' ' influence in eminent degree. He was the originator of the plan for a Methodist religious life of his dole. His large and impressive actions were the inevitable ,- y M' college in Mississippi, and to him more than anyone else was due the establishment expressions of his soulg and that soul was aa a light to his day and generation. if of Millsaps College. He was for years the Chairman of the Board of Education Great as Bishop Galloway was as a preacher and statesman, he was pre-eminently of his church, and was thereby the chief director of its educational policies. For great as a lover of men. He possessed to an unusual degree that lovc that is the I some years before his death he was President of the Board of Trustees of Van- divine in man. In the mysterious power of personal inilucnce lay the secret of M3 derbilt University, and he was vitally identified with its progrssive policy. Fin- his mighty service. He had not lived out his three-score years, but if life is to 'Av' ally, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University, honoring the be measured by achievement, by impress upon the present, and extension of infla- N office by the devotion and intelligent service he rendered his Alana Mater. He ence into the future, the life of Bishop Galloway was the fullest and most nhan- i 1, I never refused an opportunity to show his loyalty to the University, und he bore dant given to hll state in his day. Nay, morcg no man ln the South exercised such . ,C repeated iztimony to the obligation he felt to hcr. His last service was his most a quickening lnllnenoe upon the idmls of the generation now livingg no rnan distinguished, when he delivered one of the greatest speeches of his life as the sounded the note of progress with such sane and unfulterlng opiiniismg no man Y Commencement Address in 1908, taking as his theme Jefferson Duoiag A Judicial expressed so fully as did he the spirit that shall dominate the future. Fi ' ' Estimate. D- H' B' is D ni I - F' - ,Q 3 ,ii . .. . L ,Q--. V hx -N, qi, ,X , V 5 '.,,, 4' ' ?- ,. O fit 4 'T ' 1 5.1 K 7 ' .A if-F f A as , X. , l . 7 : Ns- . 5200, A ,,,.LY I - ,M 1 .h 54 f 2917 if YJ v 4' W Zi' V - xN X N - ' -A-1 wi gf '-X City -QWJ J ,.f96..f i ,.,1. . . . ok .