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725 Wooster Pike

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General Information

No:   725  
Street:   Wooster  
House Name:   Galloway House  
Historic Plaque:   N  
Owner Info:   Y  
Built:   N  
Sec:   29  
Subdivision:   Columbia  
Lot:   IRR R2-T5-S29 SE  
Architect:     
Cont/build:   built by hand  

Description:    2 story stone & siding American Farmhouse, gable roof.  Property originally a nursery.  Has a stone foundation with frame upper level.  10 rooms, 1 1/2 baths.  Root cellar.  Still usable cistern system not in use.  6 1/2 room barn with dirt cellar.  Originally no front porch.  Sleeping porch added in back. (Dusty Rhodes says house has 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms and 1 bath.)   
Original Use:   Residential  
Current Use:   Residential  

CHANGES:
As Built:   N  
Added To:   Y  
Subtracted From:   N  
Replaced:   N  

Description Of Changes:   Additions: upstairs sleeping porch; den now utility room; front porch;  
Deeds
Shows earliest property ownership records

Stories:

Story 1: Galloway House. John L. Galloway, treasurer of the village (born KY 1824), married Hepzibah Highlands, daughter of William (1st son of William & Elizabeth Highlands) & Sarah Smith Highlands. They had 3 (see below) sons, William, Elton and Frank and a daughter Stella who married Walter Boone, son of Thomas Boone (see 601 Wooster). J. L. Galloway built this house in 1864(?). J. L. planted a ginkgo tree (in 1858, according to Stella Galloway Boone's 1942 paper for the TP Garden Club), which is still standing on the property in 2000. Galloway sold c16 acres to George Corey for his subdivision in 1885(?). Galloway had a nursery on Wooster Pike. George Balhizer (Milford family) went to work for Galloway when he was 14 years old. After the Spanish American War he went to Chicago where he became a commercial flower grower. Eventually it became the biggest seed and forest supply company in the world, George Ball Co.
Story 2: Information from History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present. Cincinnati, Ohio; S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers; 1894, p. 951 (book in TPHS archives).
Story 3: Galloway names mentioned in a deed involving Kate Cornish: Hepzibah S. Galloway (wife of J. L., and mother of the 3 boys and Stella), William E. Galloway, Frank C. Galloway & Stella M. Boone. Also Myra E. Bass (see 322 Harvard).
Story 4: According to the 1910 census, Lulu Galloway was the 16 year old daughter of Frank C. & Nellie E. Galloway. In 1950 a letter was received in Terrace Park from Helen Virginia Simmons of 4110 Roseland, Apt. #3. Houston Texas. In order to receive a certain death benefit, it is necessary to establish documentary proof that my mother, Lulu May Galloway, born October 8, 1893, is the legal daughter of Frank C. Galloway formerly of Terrace Park, Ohio. I believe my mother was born in Terrace Park, Ohio. Were birth certificates issued at that time? If so, would you please tell me what is necessary to procure such a certificate, and the cost? If no such certificate is available, could you tell me any other document that might have her name on it, also Frank C. Galloway's name, as her father? My mother's married name was Mrs. James Raymond Simmons. Someone in Terrace Park noted No Record of birth in Terrace Park. Records begin in 1909.
Story 5: The original structure had no walls over the central beams. Walls were covered with wall paper over cheesecloth. The Cornishes added some walls, probably 1940c and the Coles added the rest when they took down the wall paper in 1982.
Story 6: Conflicting dates in stories. 1971 scrapbook - story and pictures - Kate Cornish with horse. Cincinnati Post, Friday, June 25, 1971: Miss Kate Cornish retires after 40 years teaching. By Mary McCarthy When this vibrant woman says have suitcases, will travel, she isn't kidding.
Story 7: Charlie Cornish was a builder. He owned 429 Elm 1929-1945 and the home in Milford where Bob Terwillegar now lives (2000). This house (725 Wooster Pike) was bought by the Cornishes c1921 (according to deeds 1927) after it was damaged by a tornado. Charlie and his father were builders so could fix it up. (Ellis Rawnsley from Charlie Cornish) Charlie Cornish was an excellent carpenter. In Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford are buried: Harry E. Cornish, father, 1866-1953; Ida M. Cornish, mother, 1865-1936; Charles W. Cornish, son, 1893-1985; Kate, daughter, 1901-11 August 1994.Harry E. Cornish was born 13 May 1866 and died 10 April 1953, aged 86 years, buried in Section 4 of Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford OH
Story 8: Notice in file of Auction (October 25 - [1980?[) at Kate & Charlie Cornish Residence of household furnishings.
Story 9: 107 & 108 in Cornish ownership refer to parcels of land. Later this land was further subdivided (see Terrace Park maps).
Story 10: Kate Cornish was at one time a teacher at the Terrace Park school.
Story 11: The Milford W. T. C. U. will be entertained this Friday afternoon by Mrs. Harry Cornish, Wooster Avenue. From the Milford Record, May 13, 1926. Found in the attic of 429 Elm Avenue by David Lewis.
Story 12: According to Peter H. Lowry the Cornish home was sold to Michael and Betty Buschbacher (410 Elm). They divided the property between their son Mike (151 Wrenwood) and their daughter Carol. Mike owned an acre of land to the rear with no house on it while Carol owned the rest and lived in the house. In 1996 Peter H. Lowry bought Mike Buschbacher's part of the property as well as 745 Wooster for rental. In May 2001 a fence went up on those combined pieces of property to accommodate 2 horses. In 1996 there was a permit issued for a new building for family residence - 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Architect: John Wallis. Contractor: Curtis Brattle. Owner: Carolyn Buschbacher. Was this ever built? Probably sold land to Peter Lowry instead.
Story 13: Ronald Cole was born 22 March 1934 and died 2 December 2006, aged 72 years, buried in St. Thomas Church Columbarium, Section 3, Niche 83. 2000-01 Direct: (Sold 2000)(2000 - sold an acre of land to the rear- see Story 12?)

Virginia Rawnsley, living next door, said they were told "Old man Cornish" added the room off the kitchen as an office for his son Charlie.