CFH First Draft: Jennie Callin Clausin Strohm

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

Jennie M Callin is the 116th 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

116. Jennie M. Callin (John C-4, George-3, John-2, James-1) was born on 4 Apr 1857 and grew up in Peru and Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio.

Jennie married Silas Henry Clausin (1852–1928) about 1877. They lived in Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, and had a son, Bert, together, but they divorced after a few years. Silas was remarried on 27 Nov 1890 in Winona County, Minnesota, to Mary A Cox (1856–1926). He and Mary raised Bert, and Silas established a successful jewelry wholesale business in Minneapolis. Silas died on 1 May 1928 and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Jennie Callin and Silas Henry Clausin had the following child:

       367          i.   Carl Bert Clausin, born 24 Nov 1878, Denison, Crawford, Iowa; married Lillian Louise McDougall, 26 Dec 1900, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota; married Alma Hiler, 21 Jun 1933, Seattle, King, Washington; died 26 February 1957, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington.

Jennie married Benjamin Franklin Strohm on 24 May 1884 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Benjamin was a son of Henry Strohm (1821–1899) and Mary Ann Kauffman (1817–1911), born in 1852 and raised in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Benjamin was a wholesale meat buyer. He and Jennie lived in Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, from at least 1900, which put her near enough to her son to suggest that they kept in touch. After Benjamin retired, about 1917, he and Jennie moved out to Los Angeles, California.

Benjamin died on 7 Apr 1922 at age 71 in Los Angeles. Jennie died there in 1924 and they are buried together in the Cathedral Mausoleum of Hollywood Forever in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California.