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Belinda Gardner Galloway, born 8/11/1863; married Henry Town, 3/21/1889; born at Cicero, Onondaga, N. Y., 7/5/1861; foreman of the cooperage department of the Illinois prison at Joliet; entered the service of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and was stationed at Dubuque, Ia.; transferred to Jackson and Detroit, Mich.; thence to Madison, Wis., as general manager of the southern half of the state; here he remained nine years, when on 9/23/1902 he was elected by the state board of control to the position of Warden of the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun, Wis.; he was a Republican, but was elected without political influence solely upon his merits; she was a teacher, then a clerk in the office of Mr. Town at Dubuque; her business ability, coupled with her vivacity and intelligence, won his esteem, and then his love. They were married and have lived a happy life. (See engraving of Nancy Catherine (Galloway-Shinn) Levens, Mr. and Mrs. Town and their two children, p. 305.)
The children were:
1. George Galloway Town (9); b. Detroit, Mich., 2/11/1891.
2. Henry Galloway Town (9); b. Madison, Wis., 10/11/1894.
Source: The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America, by Josiah H. Shinn. (1903)
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