James Galloway is credited as the first
white man to settle in what is now Mad River Township
in Clark County. Galloway took a 400 acre tract of
partly upland, partly rich bottom land along Muddy
Run. The exact date that Galloway settled is unknown, but
is believed to have been not later than 1798.
The location of Galloway's cabin was
on what is now Enon-Xenia Road beyond Twin Lakes on
a hill.
James Galloway and his wife,
came from Pennsylvania. They stopped in Kentucky, but
land titles were too insecure there. They, then came
north to the present Mad River township.
Galloway, a blacksmith by trade, brought with him a 175 pound anvil and a few tools. Being the only blacksmith for many miles, he did a good business, though for a few years his main customers were Indians of the local area.
This information was contained in Beer's
History of Clark County written in 1881.