John M. Galloway has gone to his reward, but his money will live in the hearts of 75,000 tobacco farmers whom he served as Director and fellow member of the Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association.
Mr. Gallaway died in Greensboro, on Sunday, July 26th, following an operation for appendicitis. During the past year he gave liberally of his time and money to the cause which was dear to his heart. He visited Virginia, South Carolina, and practically every section of North Carolina in behalf of Cooperative Marketing for tobacco, as an earnest advocate of the system which he declared would give the big and little growers their fair reward.
John M. Galloway was the largest grower of Bright Leaf Tobacco in the world, and of the 225 tenants who worked on his 10,000 acres of farmland in Stokes and Rockingham Counties, every one signed the contract of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, following the example of Mr. Galloway who exerted no other pressure upon them than his own earnest advice and example.
From the front page of The Oxford Public Ledger, Oxford, N.C., Friday, July 21, 1922. The newspaper spelled the last name “Gallaway” on two references, including the headline, and three times as “Galloway”. I believe Galloway is correct. He was only 47 at the time of his death. For more information on John Marion Galloway, see Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marion_Galloway_House. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 83001886.
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