1860 US Census - Amasa Galloway - Carson County, Utah Territory (now Nevada) - Sullivan Mining District

Glen · March 11, 2007

This is my, so far, my earliest census record for Amasa Galloway. Amasa is living in the Sullivan Mining District in what is now the state of Nevada. He and his two partners are mining a claim they valued at $15,000. There were 39 people listed as living in "Sullivan's Mining District" in 1860. Carson County, Utah Territory was split off as Nevada Territory in 1861 and then was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada in 1864. Amasa was 29 in 1860 and (I assume) single. We later find him in 1870 living near Seattle in King County, WA married to Elizabeth Jordan. He is found in Walla Walla County, WA in the late 1870's and early 1880's. He had a couple lawsuits filed against him there for the collection of promissory notes. He later moved to Whitman County, WA in the 1880's. We find him and his wife Elizabeth Jordan and family living in the Wauconda mining district in Okanogan County, WA in the 1890's and early 20th Century. One of Amasa's younger sons was Charles Amasa Galloway. Charles was the father of Elsie (Galloway) Hamilton.

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