CFH First Draft: James Callin (1855-1930)

 This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History. 

James Callin is the 115th person in a descendant report beginning with the earliest known ancestor of our Callin family, (1.) James Callin. This descendant report uses the Register Style of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 

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Fifth Generation

115. James Callin (John C-4, George-3, John-2, James-1) was born in Sep 1855 in Huron County, Ohio. He grew up in Peru and in Monroeville.

James married Harriett Manerva "Hattie" Bartow around 1880. Hattie was the daughter of Seth Allen Bartow (1834–1915) and Cecilia Hollister (1834–1915), born on 8 Apr 1859. She grew up in Townsend, Huron County, Ohio. Hattie married her first husband, Noah H. Baron, on 31 Dec 1876, but it is not clear how long they were married.

James and Hattie were in Norwalk in 1880, she was a milliner and he was a domestic servant. The date of their wedding is not certain; birth records for their eldest child, Jennie, put her birthdate on 28 Sep 1879 in Norwalk. The 1880 Census (enumerated in June) and the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index suggest that her actual birthdate is 28 Sep 1880, so they may have been married over the summer.

The Callin family lived in Huron, Erie County, Ohio in 1900, where James ran a grocery. James’s father, John, lived with them. By 1910, most of the family lived in Chicago, Illinois. Hattie died in Chicago on 7 Apr 1915 at age 55 and was buried on 9 Apr 1915 in Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio. James lived with his son in Chicago and his daughter’s family, the Forgeys, in Elkhart, Indiana. He died in 1930 at age 75 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida and was buried in Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio. His obituary appeared in The Sandusky Register on 14 Jan 1930.

HURON, Jan. 13--Funeral services were held this morning for James Callan [sic], 72, who died in Miami, Fla., at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ada Forgey. Interment was made in Berlin Heights Cemetery. Mr. Callan ran a livery stable here 30 years ago, but in recent years he had divided his time between this village, Chicago and Miami. Surviving him are three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Toomey, of Cleveland; Mrs. Forgey; and Mrs. Helen Ladd, of Detroit; and a son, Arthur Callan, of Chicago.

James Callin and Harriett Manerva "Hattie" Bartow had the following children:

       363          i.   Jennie M. Callin, born 28 Sep 1880, Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio; married Harry Clinton Toomey, 28 Dec 1898, Erie County, Ohio; died Feb 1979, East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

       364         ii.   Arthur James Callin, born 4 Sep 1883, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio; married Mabel Ethel Nolan, 30 Nov 1907, Berrien County, Michigan; married Mabel Siewe, 5 Nov 1919, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

       365        iii.   Ada Cecilia Callin, born Nov 1884, Ohio; married Albert Sydney Forgey, 11 July 1906, Elkhart County, Indiana; died May 1967, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

       366        iv.   Helen G Callin, born Aug 1892, Ohio; married Roscoe Lambert Ladd, 29 June 1909, Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan; died 1953.