![]() At the age of eight he was taken to live with friends in Napa Valley, California. His parents died when he was quite young. His boyhood experiences, some of which were acquired at Virginia City, Nevada, when that city was the center of the great mining activity incident to the discovery and development of the famous Comstock Lode, Middle Ages deep impression upon him, as is evidenced by his Early Engineering Works Contributory to the Comstock, published by the University of Nevada. ![]() His ancestors were residents of Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolution. Galloway, the son of James and Emily (Hoover) Galloway), was born on October 13, 1869, at San Jose, California. A recital of the list of important engineering projects with which he was associated through more than half a century and the many honors bestowed upon him may not be so interesting to the readers of The First Transcontinental Railroad as is a word as to his personality and the interests which led him to write on this subject. John Debo Galloway will ever be rated as one of the great engineers who had an important part in the development of Western America. ![]()
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